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This is the right answer. Your safety net is your responsibility, not your company’s or the government’s (like it or not, this is the reality we live in today,
by oceanplexian 5y ago
This is the right answer. Your safety net is your responsibility, not your company’s or the government’s (like it or not, this is the reality we live in today, in the USA). Making the high income that he does, it should have been trivial to save a few years worth of emergency fund for exactly this situation. If he had made different choices he would be able to take a year off and properly take care of his family, not blame Amazon for his life choices.
- ivraatiems 5y agoIt shouldn't be the reality in a society with the amount of wealth ours has.
- oceanplexian 5y agoIf you make mid six-figures and can’t put together an emergency fund that is on you. He could have made different life choices and spent time with his wife in her last moments rather than slaving away at work.
- ivraatiems 5y agoI agree absolutely on the importance of an emergency fund from a tactical, this is how society is perspective. But I don't think it should be necessary and I don't concede that that's the right way for things to work.
- s5300 5y agoCancer treatment often goes up over a million, sometimes into millions Perhaps you're unaware of that, but do you still expect somebody making six figures to be able to have that emergency fund just sitting around?
- starbugs 5y agoDo you really think that this is about the money? This man is losing his wife, he cannot think clearly, because he loses the person he loves and has children with. He may suffer from severe depression. I'd bet my right leg that if he didn't need to, he would not think about money for a minute. It also doesn't matter whether he should have built up an emergency fund that can cover cancer treatment expenses. He clearly has different problems than that right now. I can't comprehend how you can even talk about money until you have helped that guy with all you have. Clearly, Amazon is well enough equipped to first provide support, then ask questions once a situation like that has been resolved. The way this is being handled is just wrong. You wouldn't treat any of your friends or family members like that, so why do it to your employee?
- Ekaros 5y agoI take then that we should be paying everyone suffering from anything hundreds of thousand a year. Every homeless person and drug addict?