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Their points system in the warehouses/FCs is literally "survival of the fittest". They hire anyone, but the "weak" get weeded out pretty fast, so only those wh

by bserge 5y ago

Their points system in the warehouses/FCs is literally "survival of the fittest". They hire anyone, but the "weak" get weeded out pretty fast, so only those who can sustain the rather high workload continue working there. And tbh, everyone is built differently, some can take much more physical abuse and pain without breaking a sweat, others break down and get depressed. I'm in the latter category, I sometimes (used to be a lot) complain about my knees and back, but then I see others with healed broken legs and arms still working, limping but doing their hard job. And I think, well, fuck me, maybe I should shut up. Still, it would be great if companies wouldn't push people to the limit. We have one life, let everyone enjoy it as best as they can.

imtringued 5y ago
It would be great if the companies that push people to the limit actually had a good reason for doing so. I don't believe Amazon has one.
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- TheOtherHobbes 5y ago
  It does it because it's profitable and because it can. This is literally what a successful market looks like: a small number of much richer people at the top, and a giant pile of damaged and discarded people at the bottom.
  - capableweb 5y ago
    Maybe it's time to redefine what "successful" means. If people are getting poorer or remain the same while a small number of people are getting richer, it's hard for me to understand that as "successful" in any way, unless you only think about the money.
- Applejinx 5y ago
  Depends what you mean as 'good'. They're quite serious about killing everything else: sheer Darwinist obliteration of all competition. It doesn't worry them one bit if their endgame is 'world of fired people and a few superheroes suffering terribly to work at demonic intensity until they break'. That stuff is not their problem. I didn't even blink at seeing this article. It tracks with the whole Amazon concept, very closely. Is there a MORAL reason for doing this? Only if you think there's some special merit in celebrating that state of human existence beyond all other ways to be, and outside of any larger systems thinking. It would work nicely in Dalek World, where it's moral to exterminate all failed humans. In 'evolutionary world' where we draw a lot of innovation and originality from integrating unexpected viewpoints and novel ideas, the Amazon thing is a quick road to starving your gene pool of anything useful. They're actively making other, less efficient forms of human employment unsustainable, rather than just unprofitable.

by bserge 5y ago

imtringued 5y ago

It would be great if the companies that push people to the limit actually had a good reason for doing so. I don't believe Amazon has one.

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TheOtherHobbes 5y ago
It does it because it's profitable and because it can. This is literally what a successful market looks like: a small number of much richer people at the top, and a giant pile of damaged and discarded people at the bottom.
- capableweb 5y ago
  Maybe it's time to redefine what "successful" means. If people are getting poorer or remain the same while a small number of people are getting richer, it's hard for me to understand that as "successful" in any way, unless you only think about the money.
Applejinx 5y ago
Depends what you mean as 'good'. They're quite serious about killing everything else: sheer Darwinist obliteration of all competition. It doesn't worry them one bit if their endgame is 'world of fired people and a few superheroes suffering terribly to work at demonic intensity until they break'. That stuff is not their problem. I didn't even blink at seeing this article. It tracks with the whole Amazon concept, very closely. Is there a MORAL reason for doing this? Only if you think there's some special merit in celebrating that state of human existence beyond all other ways to be, and outside of any larger systems thinking. It would work nicely in Dalek World, where it's moral to exterminate all failed humans. In 'evolutionary world' where we draw a lot of innovation and originality from integrating unexpected viewpoints and novel ideas, the Amazon thing is a quick road to starving your gene pool of anything useful. They're actively making other, less efficient forms of human employment unsustainable, rather than just unprofitable.