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Amazon employment practices are disturbing, there is exploitation of workers and the fact that employment is not a choice is not addressed in the capitalism nar
by throw2016 8y ago
Amazon employment practices are disturbing, there is exploitation of workers and the fact that employment is not a choice is not addressed in the capitalism narrative, there is coercion and there is an unequal playing field between capital and labor.
And this kind of exploitation directly causes a race to the bottom as competitors cannot be competitive without it. Bezos is rich, difficult to understand what he gains by treating workers this way. It's seems more and more like an ideology, a culture.
The only way this gets fixed is strong regulation, a social culture that abhors exploitation and consumer choice.
For consumer choice to be effective you need to start an intense awareness campaign that will compel people to think twice before buying from Amazon. But its a long term and expensive process with uncertain results.
It's incredibly difficult building something like Amazon, and Bezos deserves all the success and money, but a few billions less for him so we have a healthier treatment of workers and healthier society should be not require a debate and reveals something fundamentally broken in our society.