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So that money goes back into the system. so there is a real disconnect and it's very you use the word condescending earlier, to think you can say this is because it's all your fault. you want low prices. this is why we have low wages. it's not a one-to-one relationship. you don't get your money to pay people strictly from sales. >> but i do -- part of i guess what i've been wondering if you are walmart shopper and if you are a captured audience and you live in a rural community and walmart is the place you get groceries and scrabble board and you know -- and your guns and bullets, all of that....

Pay living wage, they are more profitable, they have less turnover from employees so there is another model out there. but let's go back -- >> look. i love costco. i could -- i have a costco situation in my household. so i love costco. but i also i have the wear with all to purchase a membership. with walmart you can drive through any rural town and there is one and stop and get gas and groceries. >> you can support your local own business that walmart tends to drive out, if it's still there. show up to one of these protests. this is related to what carmen said. walmart's same-store sales in t...

>> i like to point out we talk about you may not know next semester whether or not you have a job in order to teach because of the job insecurity. that also means students that if you took a class, with you this semester you may not be around next semester to write a letter of recommendation. i think it's mostly invisible to students. they see us standing up there and giving assignments and they don't realize the differences in how people are experiencing their job. what then can unionization do to help create a more fair set of labor practices. >> if you have a collective bargaining agreement...

Religious business owners of for profit corporations, winding their way through the court system. the courts are divided on it but they combine two interesting trends that we're wrestling with in this country, one is the trend towards personhood, asking for religious con shens rights that be applied to corporations instead of just to individual natural persons who can think and feel. the other is a trend towards these -- the question for religious exemptions for laws that otherwise apply to everybody. >> to push back a little bit. corporations all the time make decisions that they think best s...

Because there's a market for that. there's a market where that's maybe all they can afford to eat. this is an industry where they've been working to do better, to bring more locally sourced products and healthy products and try to get subsidies or partnerships that were going to make that affordable, so they can offer these things. i was yesterday at a conference sponsored by governor cuomo trying to match local purveyors with restaurants here in new york city to make sure they're getting high-quality products is at affordable prices and create those partnerships. and i think that's somewhere ...