By Pepper of the Daily Pepper
Like a true Walton, Wal-Mart heiress Elizabeth Paige Laurie hired her roommate, Elena Martinez, to do her homework while she was studying at USC. She paid the roomie a cut rate ($20,000 total). It wasn't even enough money for Martinez to stay enrolled in USC, but at least Laurie could argue that she was giving her roomie a USC-level education.
Now that is a classic Wal-Mart move. Hire a person to do the dirty work that no one wants to do, pay the person not quite enough to live on but just enough so they need it, and convince the person that they are benefitting from the exchange.
