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Take off your rose tinted glasses and join reality. This happened in America and not Europe because America allows these “superstar firms” to exploit the workin

Take off your rose tinted glasses and join reality. This happened in America and not Europe because America allows these “superstar firms” to exploit the working class in order to achieve their success. If America had proper workers rights and labor laws, suddenly these “superstars” would disappear.

dfxm12 6y ago
If America had proper workers rights and labor laws, suddenly these “superstars” would disappear. I wonder if this is actually true, looking at how much a company like Amazon rakes in. They have cash to spend. They could probably spend it towards living wages & safety measures for their workers & still have a hefty sum left over.
- dagw 6y ago
  If the US introduced "proper workers rights and labor laws" today Amazon would probably be fine. In fact they might even be better off long term since it would greatly increase barriers to entry for any future competition. The interesting (and unanswerable) question is what Amazon would look like today is those hypothetical "proper workers rights and labor laws" had been in place 20 years ago.
jandrewrogers 6y ago
Amazon pays its warehouse workers very well by European standards, so clearly that isn't the whole story. Where are the people demanding that European warehouse workers be paid the same wage as Amazon warehouse workers? Do you think a European warehouse worker would feel "exploited" by the much higher wages Amazon pays?
seibelj 6y ago
> If America had proper workers rights and labor laws, suddenly these “superstars” would disappear. Whatever the rights and laws you consider are "proper", if that resulted in the death of all large corporations, I would argue such rights and laws are "improper". I like corporations. When the pandemic occurred, basically the only thing that still worked like normal was my internet, Netflix, and Amazon. The Postal service was a piece of shit. So there's one data point!
TheCoelacanth 6y ago
No company is going to walk away from $20 trillion in GDP just because they have to pay their workers a bit more. American consumers are the biggest spenders in the world and Amazon needs to operate here if they want to snag a chunk of that.

dfxm12 6y ago

If America had proper workers rights and labor laws, suddenly these “superstars” would disappear. I wonder if this is actually true, looking at how much a company like Amazon rakes in. They have cash to spend. They could probably spend it towards living wages & safety measures for their workers & still have a hefty sum left over.

dagw 6y ago
If the US introduced "proper workers rights and labor laws" today Amazon would probably be fine. In fact they might even be better off long term since it would greatly increase barriers to entry for any future competition. The interesting (and unanswerable) question is what Amazon would look like today is those hypothetical "proper workers rights and labor laws" had been in place 20 years ago.

jandrewrogers 6y ago

Amazon pays its warehouse workers very well by European standards, so clearly that isn't the whole story. Where are the people demanding that European warehouse workers be paid the same wage as Amazon warehouse workers? Do you think a European warehouse worker would feel "exploited" by the much higher wages Amazon pays?

seibelj 6y ago

> If America had proper workers rights and labor laws, suddenly these “superstars” would disappear. Whatever the rights and laws you consider are "proper", if that resulted in the death of all large corporations, I would argue such rights and laws are "improper". I like corporations. When the pandemic occurred, basically the only thing that still worked like normal was my internet, Netflix, and Amazon. The Postal service was a piece of shit. So there's one data point!

TheCoelacanth 6y ago

No company is going to walk away from $20 trillion in GDP just because they have to pay their workers a bit more. American consumers are the biggest spenders in the world and Amazon needs to operate here if they want to snag a chunk of that.