

It looks like this is a really heavily propagandised presentation of a year old story. About a year ago a website called Haitang based out of Taipei was using a money laundering method to pay some authors on its platform in a way that would avoid them having to pay tax on that income. They got shut down for like a few days and changed the site’s payout model. As far as I can tell, a few authors got in minor trouble for tax evasion.
Not as fat as you’d think. Walmart wages scale about the same as pay for E-3s and E-4s, depending on the store and position. E-4 wages are like $18 an hour.