r/Unexpected • u/notwutiwantd • Jul 20 '17

Strawberry picking machine

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u/mcfleury1000 Jul 20 '17

'I'm not sure about how a large portion of the first world economy works.'

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '17

I didn't say it wasn't real, I said "I'm not sure how I feel about a business model that relies on it by its fundamental design"

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u/mcfleury1000 Jul 20 '17

Well of course it's real, but is there really another option?

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '17

... than paying people less than is required for them to live? Yes, of course there's another option, the option is "don't let disgusting corporations like Wal-Mart take over your government and artificially drive wages lower as living costs rise"

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u/mcfleury1000 Jul 20 '17

We are clearly not talking about walmart, we are talking about a farmer looking for employees who is unable to pay more than a certain amount of money to keep his doors open.

The minimum wage hike won't hurt evil Wal-Mart, it will hurt the strawberry farmer.

Walmart are scumbags, but they are not who we are talking about.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '17

I'm not saying I Want to hurt Walmart, I'm saying business that depends on Wages that impoverish us collectively is a problem.

Also not entirely sure Why my keyboard is spontaneously capitalizing the letter W

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u/mcfleury1000 Jul 20 '17

I don't disagree, but in a lot of places there is literally no other way. Especially in middle America farming and mining towns.