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They provide little value yet where deemed essential workers. F off with that bs man. The lowest paid people are the people who deliver the last Mile of servic

They provide little value yet where deemed essential workers. F off with that bs man. The lowest paid people are the people who deliver the last Mile of service, without Them, McDonald’s doesn’t serve a billion burgers. Amazon doesn’t ship its groceries. Safeway doesn’t have stocked shelves. Police has existed to destroy unions and the country as a whole Also discourages unionizing. We’ve taken a tool these people had to fight for better wages away. Edited Autocorrect typos

fastball 6y ago
Without them in aggregate, yes. Unfortunately, at an individual level, this is not true. This is an important point, because we are talking about individual income disparity here. AMZN spends a large bulk of their income on that last mile delivery, they're not really skimping. The issue is that delivery of this portion of the service is provided by lots and lots of unskilled people. Without one burger flipper, McDs is not going to fall apart. In fact, it's doubtful a single restaurant would be hurt much at all by the loss of a single burger flipper. Without Jeff Bezos, AMZN very well could fall apart (or more accurately, probably wouldn't have made it this far in the first place). Jeff Bezos is worth way, way, way, way more to AMZN than a single warehouse worker. Is he worth more than every warehouse put together? Maybe not. But you need to remember that AMZN has AWS and various other things which don't require warehouse workers at all, but are all still under Bezos. This makes the arithmetic a bit harder, but Jeff Bezos in many ways is arguably literally irreplaceable to AMZN, making his hypothetical value to the company infinite.
- viklove 6y ago
  I think the entire world would be much better off without Bezos, we should pay him 0 and redistribute all of his wealth. By your arithmetic he may be "infinitely valuable," but from my stance he's infinitely worthless.
  - jacobush 6y ago
    He could keep a billion or two.
  - fastball 6y ago
    Yes, and we should probably do the same to you while we're at it, right? Or is it more of a "rules for thee but not for me" kinda thing?
    - viklove 6y ago
      No, it's more a "when you spew baseless beliefs, I'll show you how ridiculous you're being by doing the same." If you're going to make a moral argument, at least try to back it up with something. It's interesting how you notice this fallacy when people are attacking billionaires, but not defending them. How's the taste of Bezos' dick in the morning?
      - fastball 6y ago
        How is “I believe in private property and ownership, including the ownership of businesses” a baseless belief? It seems pretty clear and internally consistent to me.

fastball 6y ago

Without them in aggregate, yes. Unfortunately, at an individual level, this is not true. This is an important point, because we are talking about individual income disparity here. AMZN spends a large bulk of their income on that last mile delivery, they're not really skimping. The issue is that delivery of this portion of the service is provided by lots and lots of unskilled people. Without one burger flipper, McDs is not going to fall apart. In fact, it's doubtful a single restaurant would be hurt much at all by the loss of a single burger flipper. Without Jeff Bezos, AMZN very well could fall apart (or more accurately, probably wouldn't have made it this far in the first place). Jeff Bezos is worth way, way, way, way more to AMZN than a single warehouse worker. Is he worth more than every warehouse put together? Maybe not. But you need to remember that AMZN has AWS and various other things which don't require warehouse workers at all, but are all still under Bezos. This makes the arithmetic a bit harder, but Jeff Bezos in many ways is arguably literally irreplaceable to AMZN, making his hypothetical value to the company infinite.

viklove 6y ago
I think the entire world would be much better off without Bezos, we should pay him 0 and redistribute all of his wealth. By your arithmetic he may be "infinitely valuable," but from my stance he's infinitely worthless.
- jacobush 6y ago
  He could keep a billion or two.
- fastball 6y ago
  Yes, and we should probably do the same to you while we're at it, right? Or is it more of a "rules for thee but not for me" kinda thing?
  - viklove 6y ago
    No, it's more a "when you spew baseless beliefs, I'll show you how ridiculous you're being by doing the same." If you're going to make a moral argument, at least try to back it up with something. It's interesting how you notice this fallacy when people are attacking billionaires, but not defending them. How's the taste of Bezos' dick in the morning?
    - fastball 6y ago
      How is “I believe in private property and ownership, including the ownership of businesses” a baseless belief? It seems pretty clear and internally consistent to me.