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For me it's not so much about how he uses his money, but how he gets it. Raking in obscene amounts of money by working people to the bone and forcing them to p
by service_bus 7y ago
For me it's not so much about how he uses his money, but how he gets it.
Raking in obscene amounts of money by working people to the bone and forcing them to pee in bottles and not be able to take proper breaks is unconscionable in my book, and can't bring myself to support such a morally repugnant business model.
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- BurningFrog 7y agoHere's actual Amazon worker with a different perspective: https://quillette.com/2019/07/19/the-problem-with-tourist-journalism/ https://quillette.com/2019/07/19/the-problem-with-tourist-jo...
- wpietri 7y agoThat is not exactly a neutral source: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quillette https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quillette More than that, it's not what a great number of Amazon workers say. And have been saying since at least 2012: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping-warehouses-labor/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-...
- BurningFrog 7y agoSure, but do you imagine the viral piss bottle stories come from a neutral source?
- icebraining 7y ago"Terrific race, the Romans. Terrific." I don't doubt that much of the reporting on the working conditions at Amazon warehouses has been exaggerated, but someone who views taking a sick day in a year as a moral failure is not a good spokesperson to make that case. And it's interesting that he doesn't mention that the "Jeff Bezos's generosity" he benefit from came exactly because of those Amazon critics he's debunking (Bezos said so himself).