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.
That too, though I haven’t had reason to go there just yet. Curious to see some stats over the year to see if there’s a notable bump for them due to standing against the trend to kill DEI.
Nearest Costco is about 45 minutes from me so while it looks like a decent replacement to Target, it’s going to have be a bit more planned that just pop out for a quick thing.
Still sort of working on how to keep track of who all I need to avoid. It may only be a small amount but I’m a stubborn one when it comes to avoiding shops. The city pissed me off once so I refused to use their municipal beer shop for like a decade after.
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And somehow, Costco? Weird twist.
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?
That too, though I haven’t had reason to go there just yet. Curious to see some stats over the year to see if there’s a notable bump for them due to standing against the trend to kill DEI.
I also haven’t had a reason to go there, haha. Probably soon for diapers, though, as Target is also shooting itself in the foot.
Nearest Costco is about 45 minutes from me so while it looks like a decent replacement to Target, it’s going to have be a bit more planned that just pop out for a quick thing.
Still sort of working on how to keep track of who all I need to avoid. It may only be a small amount but I’m a stubborn one when it comes to avoiding shops. The city pissed me off once so I refused to use their municipal beer shop for like a decade after.