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When your employer claims poverty while expecting loyalty

I make $15/hour at the grocery store while my manager talks about how hard it is to find good workers, but when I asked for a raise she said the budget doesn't allow it even though we're constantly understaffed.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between corporate profit maximization and worker dignity creates a daily moral friction that erodes one's sense of worth.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Economic justice — what it requires?”

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