{"id":746,"date":"2013-04-13T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/?p=746"},"modified":"2013-04-12T05:41:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T05:41:42","slug":"costco-vs-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2013\/04\/13\/costco-vs-walmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Costco vs. Walmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/2wo2lcd3BaI\">Here&#8217;s a neat video<\/a> about how Costco treats its employees versus Walmart. It reminded me a lot of what I saw in Michael Moore&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=ansingenbus-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as4&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;asins=B0030Y11XS\"><em>Capitalism: A Love Story<\/em><\/a>. Moore documents several businesses that are run in a quasi-socialist manner; the employees receive a share of the profit based on how many hours they work. As I understand it, Costco runs its business in a similar fashion, except that employees are <em>not<\/em> given a straight-out percentage of the profit. Instead, they are paid a higher hourly wage, and a wage which is much closer to the amount of money the employee generates for the company than other businesses pay. I&#8217;m now more motivated than ever to start shopping there.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I think it&#8217;s quite possible that businesses in the future will be run in a quasi-socialist fashion, or at least that more businesses will operate this way than do presently. And I think that will be a great thing for all of us working folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a neat video about how Costco treats its employees versus Walmart. It reminded me a lot of what I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}