2025-2026 offseason thread

Enscheff said:
Sorry, but that's pure trickle down nonsense. These people could have become plumbers or electricians or forklift operators or any other skilled/semi-skilled labor if trade schools were easily accessible to them.

Let's stop acting like Walmart helps these people for any reason other than the fact training a workforce helps them make more profit so rich people get even richer. If it was 1 cent more profitable to not train their own people, they wouldn't. If it were 1 cent more profitable to not treat people well for employee retention, they would not hesitate to let them all walk.
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You misunderstand my position. They aren't helping people out of altruism. I never said they were. But their presence gives low skill workers, many of whom don't have the aptitude or ambition to work in the trades, a place to work. Surely you don't think that the lady who is 50 pounds overweight is going to climb ladders to run conduit or crawl under houses to unclog drains. But she can work a register, stock shelves, etc. The presence of a Walmart store gives those people a place to work, and also keeps prices lower versus the local businesses they replace (whether that's good or bad for a community is an entirely different debate).

I can't speak for the entire country, but where I live and in the geographical footprint my business serves, there are plenty of affordable and accessible trade schools. Every plumbing, HVAC, or electrical company is short handed. Not everyone has the desire to maximize their earning potential.
 
Walmart can be both operationally efficient and also bad for the American people.

But we’re talking about someone who doesn’t recognize what a shithole the majority of the American south is, so what can you do?
 
DirkPiggler said:
You misunderstand my position. They aren't helping people out of altruism. I never said they were. But their presence gives low skill workers, many of whom don't have the aptitude or ambition to work in the trades, a place to work. Surely you don't think that the lady who is 50 pounds overweight is going to climb ladders to run conduit or crawl under houses to unclog drains. But she can work a register, stock shelves, etc. The presence of a Walmart store gives those people a place to work, and also keeps prices lower versus the local businesses they replace (whether that's good or bad for a community is an entirely different debate).

I can't speak for the entire country, but where I live and in the geographical footprint my business serves, there are plenty of affordable and accessible trade schools. Every plumbing, HVAC, or electrical company is short handed. Not everyone has the desire to maximize their earning potential.
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Yup... it ain't altruism. It's capitalism working. Forget about the jobs, it also makes everyday groceries affordable for poor people, and reduces the tax payer burden of higher welfare price tag. Walmart could absolutely raise their prices on goods, but they choose not to in order to squeeze their competition lower as well as their suppliers. They intentionally operate at a 4% margin - which is literally bare bones. This requires competitors like Target and Kroger to be in the same ball park price wise, or they lose business. Hell Amazon has done the same thing with Whole Foods, lowering their margins in order to make it more affordable.

It's a beautiful thing. and anyone who thinks Walmart represents a "dumb" company is a fool. They are brilliant while simultaneously getting decent jobs to complete idiots and affordable goods to the poorest people of the country
 
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