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Not to defend Amazon here, but if the market demands cheaper products, which necessitates a ton of labor, and laborers are being overworked... Doesn’t replacin
by bransonf 7y ago
Not to defend Amazon here, but if the market demands cheaper products, which necessitates a ton of labor, and laborers are being overworked...
Doesn’t replacing them with robots actually sound like a viable solution?
The market demands this work, but we recognize it’s unreasonable to subject humans to these conditions.
- gurumeditations 7y agoThat depends on if you’re on the side of the capitalist or the side of labor. Capital holders would take that point of view but labor might say capital should make the work more reasonable and hire more labor to make up the difference.
- beatgammit 7y agoIsn't there a third argument in favor of retraining those workers to do less labor intensive jobs? We have plenty of immigrants that would love to have those jobs at those wages, so retraining would be better for both groups, no?