4 ms·
Maybe it’s my privilege speaking but I never understood what’s so uniquely horrible about Amazon warehouse work that isn’t also found in numerous other menial j
by jl6 6y ago
Maybe it’s my privilege speaking but I never understood what’s so uniquely horrible about Amazon warehouse work that isn’t also found in numerous other menial jobs. We have lots of labor laws designed to prevent various abuses. What’s the new abuse here?
- readflaggedcomm 6y agoWhat's new is widespread participation in this oppression. Every buy from Amazon is another wage theft.
- jl6 6y agoBut fruit picking is a much worse job and everybody participates in fruit eating.
- jfengel 6y agoThere were protests about fruit pickers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delano_grape_strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delano_grape_strike It's still a bad job, and now it's deeply entangled with illegal immigration. That makes it hard to make it visible. Amazon pushes the limits of the law a bit less, because its workers aren't migrants. But because they're not migrants it's easier to focus on them.
- raarts 6y agoFamous last words while clicking 'Order now' on the Amazon website.
- aarpmcgee 6y agoI haven't ordered from Amazon in 2 years. It is a lot easier than I thought it was going to be, though I understand it might not be easy for everyone.
- readflaggedcomm 6y agoIs this the bad reaction to my comment, you think I'm a hypocrite?
- raarts 6y agoIt was sarcasm but do you use Amazon? I do think that it's hypocritical for people to actually be a customer while on the other hand participate in popular culture by throwing big words like oppression around.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- lwhi 6y agoBecause they employ so many people, in so many jurisdictions .. they obviously hold a huge amount of power. How should we respond to that power? I think Amazon is in danger of legitimising arguably exploitative working practices, if they aren't challenged when people aren't considered as much as profit.
- dogma1138 6y agoI don’t think Amazon has the power to legitimize it, they, and the gig economy if anything brought this more to the limelight. Before this those people tended to be more invisible.