Analysis Of Walmart's Way Of Work

Megan McArdle, the author of Walmart's Wage Experiment Works... for Workers, compares wage increases with different workforces at Walmart stores. McArdle provides the reader with ideas and questions like, "What happens if different stores did this?" and other questions relating to the effort needed to continue production if Walmart increased or the number of employees needed to fill the new workplaces. Claims like, "Paying higher wages has allowed Walmart to attract better workers, resulting in cleaner, nicer stores." Throughout the article, McArdle compares Costco's way of work with Walmart's and concludes that people living/working in rural(ish) areas generally make less money and have less workers, so "up"ing the wages would help those less
income workers. The claim, "...big stores in small towns..." is tossed around a bit in the article and to me, it references smaller populations. In the article, Megan McArdle uses that claim to say that smaller locations basically have little production, so those businesses relocate to urban areas, but since workers have to relocate too, does that mean they get higher wages for traveling a longer distance? No, they get paid the same. Another statement I like from the article, "...If companies were too evil of stupid to see where their best interests lay, then public-spirited politicians would have to take matters into their own hands." I like that statement because in a society where money runs the world, company owners shouldn't be living in "piles of money" when they don't do the actual work. The company workers should have enough money to spare for next paycheck. They (the workers and the workers' families) shouldn't have to be on welfare and depend on the little money they have left until next paycheck.