'Hiroshima of Community Notes': Jacobin Mag Gets NUKED by Reality After Shaming Walmart Employee Pay
http://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/05/21/jacobin-walmart-community-noted-n2396451
Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
It's a lesson the folks at Jacobin Magazine would do well to learn. If they did, perhaps they wouldn't post stuff like this.
Jacobin (@jacobin) ~ Infamous for its starvation wages, Walmart just posted staggering first-quarter profits. The surge is a result of its strategic shift toward catering to affluent shoppers while its full-time workers continue to rely on Medicaid and food stamps.
http://jacobin.com/2024/05/walmart-living-wage-medicaid-snap/
Jacobin Magazine is an avowed Socialist, woketard publication.
They write:
It’s a great time in America to be a parasitic retailer. Walmart is reporting a strong first quarter this year, beating market estimates. It reported a 22 percent growth in e-commerce sales and a nearly 4 percent jump in transactions, and its first-quarter profit of $5.1 billion was triple last year’s, driven by $161.5 billion in revenue. Its stock rose on the news and hit an all-time high of $64 per share. Isn’t that nice?
As Jordyn Holman writes for the New York Times, Walmart’s growth comes in large part from “a focus on well-heeled shoppers.” She points out that, according to GlobalData, “over the past three years, households earning over $100,000 have provided the biggest gains in Walmart’s market share.”
Holy snark, Batman.
But never fear -- X users pointed out this very inconvenient fact in the Community Notes:
Walmart non-corporate Associates’ average hourly wage is $17.50/hour with full-time benefits. Jacobin pays writers $0.07/word, so a Jacobin writer would have to write 250 words an hour continuously to make the same wage as a Walmart Associate, but without benefits.
Brutal.
Ran Harpaz (@RanHarpaz) ~ I'd say "Pay your writers better, hypocrites," but since they're the people writing this garbage, maybe pay them less.
Carlos (@txiokatu) ~ Hahaha! Eat that community note. LMFAO!
It's a thing of beauty.
Will, the Teruo Nakamura of Burgum stans (@spudhawg) ~ If Walmart pays starvation wages, what does that make y’all?
Commies.
And hypocrites.
Polybius Champion (@PolybiusChamp) ~ As of May 12, 2024, the average hourly pay for a Walmart in Georgia is $26.79 an hour.
FL $27.43
OH $31.00
KY $35.49
WI $21.28
NV $41.45
Andrew Young - TANSTAAFL King Curmudgeon (@NucMM1retired) ~ I’d like to report a death by Community Notes.
𝓐𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓡𝓪𝔂 42 (@2CynicAl65) ~ Hey, @jacobin ... did it hurt when you fell out of that hypocrisy tree?
We hope it did.
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