Wal-Mart workers don’t get to live in subsidized housing on base.
In Williston, ND, they were provided housing. (Rents in town are nuts).
Wal-mart employees are not subject to being sent into combat against their wills, either.
There is ABSOLUTELY no comparison between Wal-mart employment (or any other civilian employment, for that matter) and the indentured servitude that is military life. Yes, military life is chosen voluntarily and it is often not a bad life. But please don't throw out spurious arguments like "Wal-Mart workers don’t get to live in subsidized housing on base."
At times my USMC "housing" fell under the category of "home is where you dig it."
“Wal-Mart workers don’t get to live in subsidized housing on base.”
Army E1’s don’t get to live with mommy and daddy at home either.
“Wal-Mart workers don’t get to live in subsidized housing on base.”
While that is a valid, and a good, point, WM workers can move up past that income, work overtime, work another job, and do other things to get financially ahead that most, not all, but most, service members cannot.
When I was in I had no ability for a second job. None. Not even allowed. I was stuck with my income. I had to wait for promotion cycles for any additional income; that and a benevolent Congress for pay raises.
Oh, puleez. How much skill does it take to run the bar code across a scanner and put a Mr. Coffee maker into a plastic sack? If they don't like Walmart's pay, then don't apply. Learn some skills and get a better paying job. No one is forcing them to work there.