• oxjox@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    Owning more wealth than the majority of the country while keeping employees on food stamps is fine. Come after the king, you’re cancelled.

    I don’t see a way out of this idiocracy.

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      7 days ago

      Tbf, I think she’s just an heiress, and I’m not sure if she actually has anything to do with the company beyond that.

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        7 days ago

        This is what I saw. She also married into the family and inherited her deceased husbands wealth.

        Still obscenely rich, but she has nothing to do with the company

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        7 days ago

        As the OP posted, Christy Walton, ie Walmart family, is funding this NO KINGS charade, points to the bottom of the adds showing she is paying for this. He also points out she is worth nearly 20 billion dollars. Do you think Christy is involved in authoritarianism causes or human right abuses? NO! He points out in articles that Walmart is the biggest corporate welfare queen (no shock,) and that they (Christy) are doing this to preserve cheap labor so they don’t have to pay. He compares China’s lowest 50% to ours. China’s lowest 50% holds twice as much wealth as our lowest 50%. He points out China, where we get all our cheap goods, is able to pay their workers, and the US somehow…cant. It is all about corporations, and in this case, Walmart specifically, not wanting to pay a living wage and preserving this.

        Edit to add, he also points out the irony of a NO KINGS protest against a KING, funded by an OLIGARCH.