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This is good news for tech workers, but the income disparity between Amazon tech workers and Amazon warehouse/delivery workers is absolutely obscene. Understan
by etempleton 5y ago
This is good news for tech workers, but the income disparity between Amazon tech workers and Amazon warehouse/delivery workers is absolutely obscene.
Understandably, skilled vs unskilled labor, and supply and demand, and all that, but as Jon Stewart recently recounted telling Jeff Bezos at a dinner party, “sounds like a recipe for a revolution.”
- abletonlive 5y agonot only skilled vs unskilled labor. but an engineer can produce a system which generates millions of revenue a day. a warehouse worker, cannot scale this way.
- etempleton 5y agoThis is very true, but at some point you need to value people at a base level. Warehouse work is grueling and you can easily get hurt. 16 /hr, which is the base of an Amazon warehouse worker, is below a livable wage w/o kids in much of the country. There is what you can get away with and what is right. At some point you just have to do what is right.
- belval 5y agoNot commenting on the substance of your comment, but seems like they hiked it to 18$/hr? https://www.reuters.com/business/exclusive-amazon-hikes-starting-pay-18-an-hour-it-hires-125000-more-logistics-2021-09-14/ https://www.reuters.com/business/exclusive-amazon-hikes-star...
- bagacrap 5y agoit seems like learning how to code would be easier than overthrowing the govt (at least it did to me back before I had any skills)
- etempleton 5y agoNot everyone can learn to code at a high level for one reason or another. They should still be able to feed and house their family if gainfully employed full time.
- bagacrap 5y agoAre the Amazon factory workers running around naked in the streets?