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This isn’t about salaries, or about Amazon not being able to afford to do the right thing. Amazon has a surplus of money.. enough to buy other large corporatio
by chabes 7y ago
This isn’t about salaries, or about Amazon not being able to afford to do the right thing.
Amazon has a surplus of money.. enough to buy other large corporations, like Whole Foods. And Jeff Bezos has so much money, he literally doesn’t know what to do with it.
Amazon will pay billions in legal costs before ever considering costs that actually benefit the workers.
- gbronner 7y agoTrue story: Friend saw Jeff Bezos waiting in line for 20 minutes for a pizza. He could have paid for an uber copter to drop one on him, or offered 10k to each of the people in front of him. He didn't. He has principles, and the principle is that you work for money and then use it to buy things that you care about.
- dragonwriter 7y agoEr, how would any of the behaviors he didn't take that you refer to violate that principle? I mean, if he cares about getting pizza, either of those would have been consistent with it. You've got an example of a choice and a principle, but the choice is in no way illustrative of the principle any more than any alternative choice, including paying gunmen to murder everyone in line in front of him, would be.