It’s not even a weird twist it’s just people who understand how capitalism actually functions and realize that investing in their workers means their workers have more disposable time and income to spend buying shit at Costco.
It’s wild to me that we’ve had to go from advocating for leftism/unions to “if we are gonna do capitalism shouldn’t we at least do it in a way that won’t break literally everything?”
Costco is simply a traditional capitalist business that doesn’t want to see the economy completely implode for everyone but the rich. They are simply promoting capitalist economic fundamentals that made the US an economic powerhouse in the world and built a wealthy “middle class.”
Treating your workers well is also an attempt to prevent unionization. Only about 8% of Costco employees are represented by a union.
It’s not even a weird twist it’s just people who understand how capitalism actually functions and realize that investing in their workers means their workers have more disposable time and income to spend buying shit at Costco.
It’s wild to me that we’ve had to go from advocating for leftism/unions to “if we are gonna do capitalism shouldn’t we at least do it in a way that won’t break literally everything?”
Costco is simply a traditional capitalist business that doesn’t want to see the economy completely implode for everyone but the rich. They are simply promoting capitalist economic fundamentals that made the US an economic powerhouse in the world and built a wealthy “middle class.”
Treating your workers well is also an attempt to prevent unionization. Only about 8% of Costco employees are represented by a union.
Ford used to say something to the effect of ‘pay your workers well enough to afford the product they’re building’ and it seemed to work well.
He was also a horrible anti-semite
Yes… but not really relevant to discussions of businesses not actively trying to completely crush the middle class here?