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The threat is that they won't be able to make ends meet if so much as a month without a job happens to them. That's because the job does not pay anything near e
by AstralStorm 6y ago
The threat is that they won't be able to make ends meet if so much as a month without a job happens to them. That's because the job does not pay anything near enough.
Existential threat. And job is time and energy consuming enough to make it high impossible to look for something else, much less anything else that isn't similarly exploitative.
It is a systemic problem and Amazon is one of the big parts of that system. "Just find another job" ignores the reality of situation of people actually taking this terrible job.
- aaomidi 6y agoAbsolutely. And the point of a government is to protect people from predatory contracts and agreements that individuals really can't refuse.