Originally Posted by bronco67

But you also probably know that if every WalMart employee got a 20% bump in salary, the owners of the company would be only marginally less rich. I'm not a major employer -- I'm a one man business, but there's a concept I definitely understand -- or maybe its more of a philosophy.

If you make your employees happy by giving them a wage that's livable in an economy where the cost of everything is rising, then they'll be happy to show up for work and do their best job to make your company thrive -- which means long term riches.

No one is going to profit in the long run if the people who work for them aren't satisfied with the pay their getting. Of course, there are limits that need to be set -- but those rich bastards at Walmart are pretty cheap. Like I said before, it's great that they built something and got rich from it, but at least have the attitude of taking care of the people who helped get you there -- instead of having employee based food drives.