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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