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The last time an article on HN about Amazon's warehouses being dangerous came out, a number of folks tried to argue that it's no big deal because they weren't d

The last time an article on HN about Amazon's warehouses being dangerous came out, a number of folks tried to argue that it's no big deal because they weren't dying. Thus, it's a safe place to work. High accident rates are perfectly fine as long as they dont die...

badrequest 7y ago
What a boring dystopia we've come to inhabit.
- cjslep 7y ago
  Evil is banal.
- corodra 7y ago
  What's sad, all fictional portrayals of dystopias are struggles and fights. Like, "the good guys died in battle from being killed by the bad guys". Now, if you speak up against FAANG or some other company making bullshit promises to "save the world", it's the people that stomp out the "good guys". Don't get me wrong, it's clever on them. But it's sad and makes the coming decades unnerving if these companies aren't lassoed into control. Apple is especially guilty of the whole cult following thing where they can do no wrong in the eyes of their zealots. Their continued growth and profiting is a symbol not of parasitic nature, but of their divinity to these people. Goddamn it, and I'm a red blooded capitalist. How do we resurrect Teddy Roosevelt, the old Bull Moose himself? We need Teddy...
  - legalScrotums 7y ago
    Teddy Roosevelt accomplished some respectable achievements, but he wasn't necessarily a hero to all. His "Big Stick" policy would probably be reviled by a more globalized world. During simpler times, an obvious thing that demanded action, saw action. Now, not so much.
jacobush 7y ago
No, because they were dying but that someone picked up the corpse before the end of the day. So it's no biggie. It's not like someone didn't notice or anything.
- corodra 7y ago
  I think it was Tennessee where a dude was dead on the floor for a good 20 minutes. But a week or two earlier, they noticed on the cameras he put an item in the wrong bin when stocking. They told him after about 90 seconds of him doing it.
  - jacobush 7y ago
    That's the one!

badrequest 7y ago

What a boring dystopia we've come to inhabit.

cjslep 7y ago
Evil is banal.
corodra 7y ago
What's sad, all fictional portrayals of dystopias are struggles and fights. Like, "the good guys died in battle from being killed by the bad guys". Now, if you speak up against FAANG or some other company making bullshit promises to "save the world", it's the people that stomp out the "good guys". Don't get me wrong, it's clever on them. But it's sad and makes the coming decades unnerving if these companies aren't lassoed into control. Apple is especially guilty of the whole cult following thing where they can do no wrong in the eyes of their zealots. Their continued growth and profiting is a symbol not of parasitic nature, but of their divinity to these people. Goddamn it, and I'm a red blooded capitalist. How do we resurrect Teddy Roosevelt, the old Bull Moose himself? We need Teddy...
- legalScrotums 7y ago
  Teddy Roosevelt accomplished some respectable achievements, but he wasn't necessarily a hero to all. His "Big Stick" policy would probably be reviled by a more globalized world. During simpler times, an obvious thing that demanded action, saw action. Now, not so much.

jacobush 7y ago

No, because they were dying but that someone picked up the corpse before the end of the day. So it's no biggie. It's not like someone didn't notice or anything.

corodra 7y ago
I think it was Tennessee where a dude was dead on the floor for a good 20 minutes. But a week or two earlier, they noticed on the cameras he put an item in the wrong bin when stocking. They told him after about 90 seconds of him doing it.
- jacobush 7y ago
  That's the one!