You buy the Wal-Mart ticket, you take the Wal-Mart ride.
I'm not being a snob, I buy the Wal-Mart ticket occasionally... to save four bucks on Sleep-Aid or whatever. But I understand the ride... to peruse Wal-Mart is to give into a certain kind of Smiling Jesus American Flags and Exploited Workforce hell just to... save four bucks on Sleep-Aid.
Owned and operated by Savage Monsters who'd stomp a hole in their mother for another yacht, staffed by People With No Other Option At All...
These old people were only following the literal interpretations of orders, by people who do not care about humanity living in mansions in Arkansas who... enforce their own insane penny-pinching rules randomly to instill fear in their broken underlings. Of COURSE those rules will be applied in nonsense ways, that's the point, making them do it that way is how you keep them broken and afraid. Rule through madness.
We have allowed our own countrymen to be made serfs that we might save a quarter on Doritos.
Go into that situation clear-eyed and you won't walk out of it in such a huff.
Sometimes you have to do bad things to get by... the key is to not fool ourselves about it, that's how we can prevent a piece of our souls from being taken in the process. If you're taking five hundred bucks from Osama Bin Laden to make your rent, don't be surprised if someone took your picture shaking his hand for it.
Be prepared to say "Yeah, the dude is evil but I had to pay my rent and I didn't see alla y'all kicking in. Don't judge me 'til you're short five bills yourself." Be prepared to believe it and know it because such things are the goddamned human condition.
This is how life works. The righteous indignation should be about places like Wal-Mart existing and people having to work entirely-humilitating jobs like that for nearly nothing in the richest country in the world... not that you got delayed for ten minutes because of the madness that swirls around that travesty.
Also: their lawyers are pretty much Highlanders, the only way to defeat them is to chop off their heads in single combat and they will be unleashed like wild dogs just to save five thousand bucks, just to prove a point that they will not be taken down by a swarm of gnat-bites. This is generally what happens when you've got hundreds of billions of dollars sloshing around in the pockets of zealots.
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