Workers are compensated for their (fairly miniscule) contribution to the endeavour. Coincidentally, their compensation directly correlates with their level of contribution.
False. Contribution does not equal your pay. Your not paid your full value.
If you were paid your full value, the company would go even. simple as that. the money they get comes from taking parts of your value, your time and labor and what you provide. and extracting that.
Walmart front end would be a large example of that. All those workers there? paid 12.50 at least at the Walmart here. That is completely and utterly bullshit. The amount of value they add is far more than that 12.50 an hour. I'm not just talking cashiers. Self checkout hosts as walmart calls them. Who both work as a cashier, and the self checkout machines. Which have a multitude of ludicrous responsibilities, such as trying to keep an eye out for people stealing shit with multiple blind spots because of poor design layout. Multiple times has someone tried stealing a full cart worth of shit 200 dollars and more.
Multiple angry customers who scream and yell at their face, or even better. (since I worked as a Walmart employee) at my Walmart, there was a man who got so pissed, he punched the screen of the machine, breaking through the touch layer entirely, so you have to react to scenario's you wouldn't even have EXPECTED to see..
that Walmart likes to place you everywhere. Your treated like rubbish by the managers, archaic rules that doesn't make any sense other than to be obtuse.
For example, I had already cleaned my station. I already refilled my bags, I was for the time, put onto the register.
There was few customers as it was getting close to closing time here. where 11pm no more customers are really allowed so about say. 10:30. So, given that I had already did everything in my area. I zoned, I cleaned, off not just my belt but also the bag rack. So, I got on my phone, I think it's reasonable that if there is nothing, absolutely NOTHING going on, which where I was, there was little to no customers, I heard from a co-worker that there was about 10 customers in the store. So I believe you should be able to have a little break, and not just stand around and well, I guess imagine some sort of movie in your head idk or stare into blank space like a robot.
Team lead comes in, screams at my face, getting pissed that I was on my phone, which to be clear of what I was doing, I was reading a comic, not even playing a game or something stupidly intensive, and then told me that I wasn't even supposed to have my phone ON MY PERSON. but put it into one of the lockers, which not a single person in management has ever TOLD me that. Another situation, I'm on self checkout GM side. it's around 9. at my store at 10, the gm selfcheck out closes. The floor is brutal, no amount of gel cushion on your feet is going to fix it. And given that again, no one was around. I sat down. Is it lazy for me to want to sit down when NOTHING IS HAPPENING? Same thing happened, got screamed and yelled at.
So Instead of sitting down, I stand on the balls of my feet, and crouch in a somewhat awkward sitting position so I don't count as "sitting" which, I never got a complaint for that. However I'm not going to tell you it's even remotely comfortable.
And I highly doubt Walmart is the "only one" who does this kind of archaic rules or make employees fit multiple tasks, even if it wasn't part of their job description. I don't remember signing up for cart pushing, and I definitely don't remember signing up for being the garbage man, taking out every single registers garbage.
Edit: as a sidenote encase someone tries to say "but your lazy, just stand more often. you must be out of shape" I walk from and to work, 26 minutes everytime I go to work, I also don't have a car, so all my options is walking. and that's me speedwalking over there. If I was walking a normal speed (according to google) be about roughly a 40 minute walk. I have no problems with walking long distances or being up right for extended periods of time. I've never felt sore. Walmart's floors? that was the first time in a long time where I actually got pain stepping around for extend periods of time.
Also I have to ask what is the point of the capitalist system? Like WE MADE this system. And when I say, I mean other human beings right?
So... Why do we have a system that intrinsically devalues work? Like no really. Take cleaning. Some may say "we'll it's just a starter job, so it should pay less" but that's extremely dumb for a multitude of reasons. The first is that at least in the united states climate, and the lack of proper minimum wage. Those wages are not exactly livable. Yes, I know that barely surviving pay check to pay check is "livable" but it really isn't. livable should provide at least decent comfort. Because otherwise, well, financial stress, along with not being able to pay surprise issues they may come up. Such as needing to call a plumber, or maybe needing someone to fix your roof, or some other reason.
Second problem. By inherently having a hierarchy. Those who generally enjoy their job, such as cleaning. Don't stick with it. Because it doesn't pay enough. Which means they move to other jobs, jobs they likely will not like. Because it pays more. Creating essentially a vacuum where people don't get the jobs they want
because effectively money said so.
So essentially humanity is in this endless cycle over a made up concept. That essentially chooses who lives or who dies. Or, who gets to do better, in life, and the other suffer. And the capitalist system, invertible reaches it's end game, where we are now. Where there are very VERY few winners. and the rest, is just loosers by start. Until very few hold most of the worlds wealth, and the rest suffers. I don't see a point in that kind of system. Getting money, isn't intrinsically valuable. It's only valuable because your life depends on it, and the amount of propaganda spewed out about money. About how money will make you happy, or how those people who make a lot of money donate to charities and are somewhat decent people, despite the fact it's a drop in the ocean, and also often into companies and business they made to look good.
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And then some say "well you should be responsible for you" and have a rugged hyper individualist mindset. which I say bull to that as well. Humans have by default are a social species. This economic system plays completely against that. Human life is mostly co-op. It is not meant to be survival of the fittest between members. And capitalism doesn't reflect that, and it doesn't follow our natural desires. I can prove that with the internet. The internet, if there wasn't worry about paying for a sever every month. Is inherently socialist or even I would argue communist. People provide what they can, take what they need. If someone in some niche community asked for a specific image or file. 9/10 out of 10. Another person just provides it.
