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> Is there some objectively fair remuneration calculation [...]? Lopsided power arrangements will always be grossly unfair to one side and generous the other.
by crispyambulance 5y ago
> Is there some objectively fair remuneration calculation [...]?
Lopsided power arrangements will always be grossly unfair to one side and generous the other. In this case it's Amazon vs the Precariat. Moreover, the two sides (and everyone else) will always have a very different idea about what is fair.
The best way to address this without directly getting into the vast grey-area of "what is fair" is to limit the political power of corporations and then address labor laws and union formation.
The sad thing is we've been through this before.
There's a reason labor unions came into being. Do we really have to wait until labor conditions for workers become the 21st century equivalent of Industrial Age steel mills run by robber-barrons? Can't we learn from history?
- wiz21c 5y agototally OT but Are you ready to use that name ?
- crispyambulance 5y agoThat's a scary question! The way things are going I expect the social safety net to be cut out from under me by the time I hit retirement.
- wiz21c 5y agoHmmm.. Dunno if you caught it but Crispy Ambulance was a band (I liked a lot) in the eighties. One of their most famous tune is "are you ready" :-)
- crispyambulance 5y agoHa! yes, I am aware of Crispy Ambulance, the band (good memories of the 80's). But I missed your reference!
- falcor84 5y agoThanks for introducing me to the term Precariat. It was quite interesting to read the Wikipedia article[0] about it now and attach a name to the phenomenon. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precariat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precariat > In sociology and economics, the precariat (/prɪˈkɛəriət/) is a neologism for a social class formed by people suffering from precarity, which means existing without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare.