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If you can't be competitive and ensure your employees have a livable wage, die. Amazon could start by stopping the free banana handouts (in a city so gentrifie

If you can't be competitive and ensure your employees have a livable wage, die. Amazon could start by stopping the free banana handouts (in a city so gentrified nobody who lives there needs a free banana) and instead paying their workers in that area more.

alecco 8y ago
Competitive with whom? The mall? No, China would wise up and take over the Amazon market from outside USA. They can just do the just-in-time shipping from Mexico or Canada, with robots or something.
- sascha_sl 8y ago
  Then maybe you should globalize workers rights before you globalize the economy. Nobody likes protectionism but maybe it's justified in this case. But your president is doing great work there from what I gathered :^)
  - huyzz 8y ago
    Exactly what we need, more globalisation. Thanks.
ApolloFortyNine 8y ago
>If you can't be competitive and ensure your employees have a livable wage, die. This livable wage argument is insane. If you think the livable wage argument is $19/hr, vote to change the minimum wage (and please don't do it nationally, San Francisco hardly has the same cost of living as anywhere in West Virginia for example). Stop trying to shame companies into it, that's not how capitalism works. Capitalism ensures people get paid market rate. If you don't like that rate, change the minimum wage.
CryptoPunk 8y ago
No one is forcing people to work for companies that pay low wages, so there's no justification for intervening in their private business and forcing them to shut down. You're also not helping anyone by killing off companies that pay low wages. There is no automatic substitution where a new company emerges that pays good wages when you kill off an old company that paid low wages. All you do by killing companies off with mandatory minimum labor standards is reduce the demand for labor, and with it, wages.

alecco 8y ago

Competitive with whom? The mall? No, China would wise up and take over the Amazon market from outside USA. They can just do the just-in-time shipping from Mexico or Canada, with robots or something.

sascha_sl 8y ago
Then maybe you should globalize workers rights before you globalize the economy. Nobody likes protectionism but maybe it's justified in this case. But your president is doing great work there from what I gathered :^)
- huyzz 8y ago
  Exactly what we need, more globalisation. Thanks.

ApolloFortyNine 8y ago

>If you can't be competitive and ensure your employees have a livable wage, die. This livable wage argument is insane. If you think the livable wage argument is $19/hr, vote to change the minimum wage (and please don't do it nationally, San Francisco hardly has the same cost of living as anywhere in West Virginia for example). Stop trying to shame companies into it, that's not how capitalism works. Capitalism ensures people get paid market rate. If you don't like that rate, change the minimum wage.

CryptoPunk 8y ago

No one is forcing people to work for companies that pay low wages, so there's no justification for intervening in their private business and forcing them to shut down. You're also not helping anyone by killing off companies that pay low wages. There is no automatic substitution where a new company emerges that pays good wages when you kill off an old company that paid low wages. All you do by killing companies off with mandatory minimum labor standards is reduce the demand for labor, and with it, wages.