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They enacted the minimum wage when Bernie Sanders threatened them, years after they started outsourcing labor abuses.
by arrosenberg 6y ago
They enacted the minimum wage when Bernie Sanders threatened them, years after they started outsourcing labor abuses.
- astrange 6y agoThat was just theater. Bernie's argument here made no sense and he knew it, but it sounded good. He was arguing that society "has to pay people welfare" because Amazon doesn't pay enough. In other words he's arguing that paying welfare is bad, which is not true and goes against the rest of his platform. Actually it's good, and the reason it's good is that it raises your wages because it gives you more freedom! In other words, without welfare the employees would be getting paid even less. (This can change depending on work requirement rules, which are mostly bad, but not enough of a problem to change the dynamic here.)
- ModernMech 6y ago> He was arguing that society "has to pay people welfare" because Amazon doesn't pay enough. In other words he's arguing that paying welfare is bad, which is not true and goes against the rest of his platform. This is not quite the argument. What you're leaving out here is that Amazon can afford to pay enough, their CEO is the richest man in the world worth over a hundred billion dollars, and Amazon pays $0 in income tax. Bernie is not saying welfare is bad, he's saying that corporations using the welfare system to subsidize their profit margins while their CEO enriches himself is bad.