Thanks to my bro who sent me this article talking about Wally World and another one of their energy saving ideas: http://ledsmagazine.com/articles/news/3/11/16?alert=1
Most people have been dissing Wally World constantly the last decade or so and might have ignored every headline the last year. IF anyone noticed, Wally Wolrd is now carrying organic food, selling flourescent lightbulbs (at pretty much cost) and coming to the forefront of corporations who become super energy effecient. Yes they still have a lot of shit to get together, though I'd like to think they at least are taking steps rather than just talking.
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Do you embrace the abuser because he brings you flowers? Perhaps if they sold the lightbulbs for a bit of a profit, they could pay their employees a living wage...
Or maybe they could just fire 25% of their workers and pay the other ones the difference. I mean, working at Walmart isn't their god-given right.
But....saving at the bottom line makes more room at the bottom line for other things, like absorbing a future double-digit healthcare increase per employee plan.
Nice try with the crappy LifeTime network analogy. How about this instead.
Do you acknowledge one of the nation's largest employer's (in this analogy, -your employer-)efforts to cut both their usage and our nation's energy usage, even though you wish you could make more money?
Yeah, fuck the energy problem. I don't care about that. All I care about is that all my socially driven expectations and dreams of life are not being met by me working at Walmart.
If you actually work at Wallmart, or make the equivilant salary & benifits, I think you've really got something to stand on.
There is no easy answer. You're correct in your ascertation that everyone makes choices. And as you implied, choices to sell energy efficient light bulbs cand influence thousands of consumers to decide to begin using them is a great approach to saving energy. Thus my reminder - if we ignore the affect our business decisions have on other people's choices, from not selling envrionmentally sound materials to not paying employees a living wage, we are headed for increased social maladies and problems that are much harder to un-do than address right now.
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