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Fake news has really taken this Amazon thing and run with it, fanning the flames of false outrage. Disappointing to see.
by missedthecue 7y ago
Fake news has really taken this Amazon thing and run with it, fanning the flames of false outrage. Disappointing to see.
- m463 7y agoHistorically ALL corporations that have reached a certain size are likely to get media attention for good and for bad. This goes for Standard Oil (and probably every oil company since), AT&T, IBM, microsoft, walmart, google and tesla.
- heyoni 7y agoI remember the story about some guy saying he had to piss in a bottle at the amazon warehouse...I believe that story, but I also believe if you take any random sample of half a million people, at least 1 person in that group will be peeing in a bottle that year. And then there’s the whistleblower who was trying to gather support when he was getting paid to be at home for 2 weeks...
- bairrd 7y agoFiring whistle-blowers is pretty egregious. If we can't try to fight for a better world after all this is over, what are we even doing besides just idly watching hundreds of thousands die?
- koheripbal 7y agoIt's because Bezos is political active, and pretty conservative (though he hates Trump). ...so the political forces are fanning the flames of discontent online. I don't believe any of these anti-Amazon posts are organically appearing on the front pages of Reddit/HN/Twitter/etc... It's all just bots.
- uoaei 7y agoPeople care because some folks put their ethics above their wallets.