I came across this yesterday on X and I’m still chuckling about it a day later. The setup here is simple. Marxist magazine Jacobin posted an attack on Walmart and its “starvation wages” yesterday. Then they posted the subhead for the article as a tweet. It read:
Infamous for its starvation wages, Walmart just posted staggering first-quarter profits. The surge is a result of its strategic shift toward catering to affluent shoppers while its full-time workers continue to rely on Medicaid and food stamps.
A short time later the tweet received a community note pointing out that Walmart pays its hourly employees a bit more than Jacobin does:
Infamous for its starvation wages, Walmart just posted staggering first-quarter profits. The surge is a result of its strategic shift toward catering to affluent shoppers while its full-time workers continue to rely on Medicaid and food stamps.
