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People definitely don't understand, but it might be people people like yourself.
Companies as big as Wal-Mart actually benefit from the economies of scale. Essentially, the larger an operation, the lower the expenses per item produced. Wal-Mart's operating costs are huge, except if you break it down per item produced. If you do that then their operation costs are far less than most businesses. That's why they've been able to push out small businesses. There's no reason for them to lower wages other than to be greedy.
It literally is. Wal-Mart's own balance sheet shows they have $10.5 billion dollars cash on hand. That's literally $10.5 billion sitting in a vault. Companies do this because it's good for their stock price.
You're also skipping over the fact that the highest earners are shareholders, who don't even work for the company. CEO and executives make way too much money but at least they actually work (they don't work 1000 times harder than a minimum wage employee, but they do deserve some compensation). Shareholders sit at home and make millions from doing literally nothing, and companies cater to them instead of the labourers doing the actual work.
So yeah, the hate is justified. The downvotes are probably because you've inadvertently parroted the same talking points that executives use to defend their greed.
Adding onto this that Walmart and similarly large companies use what is effectively a planned economy (that rivals or exceeds the size of some actual nations). There is no need for the executives to be making these last minute decisions on stock placement or layoffs or any of the shit they supposedly do. If Walmart transitioned to be employee owned (not through stocks, but actually employee owned), it could maintain the same centralized planned economy nature (since it's almost entirely run through computers). It could benefit the workers directly, lift the economies of of the communities it existed within, and be an actual force for good in the world. All whole the actual products it sold would be much cheaper because they wouldn't be supported an ultrarich parasitical class.
But instead it benefits like 100 people, and the planet gets to burn in response. Yeah, no, it's not that we don't understand. It's that we do. These companies aren't just bad for their workers, they're bad for literally everybody.