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How many people enter the workforce annually? Workers are renewable for annual exploitation

by newsclues 5y ago

werber 5y ago
This comment is so bleak it made me think of Amazon going the route of the US military and recruiting in high schools
- Frost1x 5y ago
  It's what tech companies already try to do recruiting fresh out of college and promoting their specific tech in highschool curriculia as well as just hoping to pad the future workforce. Not that different than the military and its ROTC programs in highschools. Obviously, working at Amazon as an SDE or whatever isn't quite the same as signing up for the military but the recruitment strategy isn't all that different.
  - marcosdumay 5y ago
    The tech industry is grooming people for a highly paying kind of job. That is much less problematic (maybe even not a problem at all) than grooming people for a low paying high demanding job.
- newsclues 5y ago
  Tech boot camps!
ruined 5y ago
Workers don't enter the market naive. Every viral shitting-in-a-bag story is another generation of kids with an aversion to Amazon
- newsclues 5y ago
  I don’t think people are totally naive, but naïveté is a spectrum and youth tend to have higher levels until age and experience occur. This is why the army uses young men for combat and why apprenticeships in trades work exist. To exploit young people
  - ziml77 5y ago
    Which ends up being a problem for young people who know and are trying not to be exploited. There's enough capable but uninformed people out there that it's no problem to these companies that they're missing a portion of the pool of potential employees by paying nothing or very little.
  - ruined 5y ago
    so, once amazon provides the ideological glorification, personal fulfillment, and material rewards those other careers can offer to at least a fraction of their members, they will perhaps be able to reliably exploit newcomers. soldiers can at least be promoted. apprentices may eventually become journeymen. both provide skills training that enable you to become an independent contractor, and the higher tiers offer quite decent pay. but for now everyone knows amazon is just a dehumanizing dead-end survival-wage job that will wreck your body, and the executives know everybody knows this, thus tfa

How many people enter the workforce annually? Workers are renewable for annual exploitation

werber 5y ago

This comment is so bleak it made me think of Amazon going the route of the US military and recruiting in high schools

Frost1x 5y ago
It's what tech companies already try to do recruiting fresh out of college and promoting their specific tech in highschool curriculia as well as just hoping to pad the future workforce. Not that different than the military and its ROTC programs in highschools. Obviously, working at Amazon as an SDE or whatever isn't quite the same as signing up for the military but the recruitment strategy isn't all that different.
- marcosdumay 5y ago
  The tech industry is grooming people for a highly paying kind of job. That is much less problematic (maybe even not a problem at all) than grooming people for a low paying high demanding job.
newsclues 5y ago
Tech boot camps!

ruined 5y ago

Workers don't enter the market naive. Every viral shitting-in-a-bag story is another generation of kids with an aversion to Amazon

newsclues 5y ago
I don’t think people are totally naive, but naïveté is a spectrum and youth tend to have higher levels until age and experience occur. This is why the army uses young men for combat and why apprenticeships in trades work exist. To exploit young people
- ziml77 5y ago
  Which ends up being a problem for young people who know and are trying not to be exploited. There's enough capable but uninformed people out there that it's no problem to these companies that they're missing a portion of the pool of potential employees by paying nothing or very little.
- ruined 5y ago
  so, once amazon provides the ideological glorification, personal fulfillment, and material rewards those other careers can offer to at least a fraction of their members, they will perhaps be able to reliably exploit newcomers. soldiers can at least be promoted. apprentices may eventually become journeymen. both provide skills training that enable you to become an independent contractor, and the higher tiers offer quite decent pay. but for now everyone knows amazon is just a dehumanizing dead-end survival-wage job that will wreck your body, and the executives know everybody knows this, thus tfa