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If you still have a prime membership this is a great time to cancel it.

aaomidi 5y ago
If you have a senator or representative this would be a great time to ask what the fuck is the NLRB doing when there's this much anti union activity going on? And if they don't respond some more direct action might be necessary.
- randomfinn 5y ago
  > If you have a senator or representative Most of us don't, but I've been looking at the lobbying numbers and they don't seem that expensive. I think with crowd funding and smart targeting of the money it might not be that difficult to buy change.
  - harry8 5y ago
    Are you suggesting we should crowd fund to get the money for politicians elected by the people to actually for the people?
    - joquarky 5y ago
      The Onion "suggested" this 12 years ago. https://www.theonion.com/american-people-hire-high-powered-lobbyist-to-push-inte-1819571821 https://www.theonion.com/american-people-hire-high-powered-l...
    - kqr 5y ago
      Unfortunately that's how most of our capitalist democracies work.
KennyBlanken 5y ago
And if Amazon is trying to set up a distribution center in your state, county, or town: fight it. At the very least insist on language that prohibits any sort of corporate welfare. No tax breaks, no free infrastructure. Bezos is the richest man in the world; he can afford to run a new sewer or water main to his big fancy warehouses, instead of making a county's worth of low-income blue-collar folks pay for it. He can afford to pay property tax. Etc Same for Walmart. Same for every fucking corporation. Stop giving corporations breaks to "bring jobs" to your town. Soon as that corporation finds a better deal somewhere else, or the workers get too 'uppity', they'll shop around and move to a town more desperate than yours.
- thelucky41 5y ago
  If the next town over does not follow this strategy, you will quickly find yourself in a diminished community with less public services and available jobs.
  - randmeerkat 5y ago
    If we insist on giving up our principles because someone else may also give up their principles, then we’re damned to a race to the bottom that neither of us will ever escape.
  - throwaway2048 5y ago
    "better things aren't possible" isn't the cutting rebuttal people think it is.
  - Jiejeing 5y ago
    If has been shown that opening an amazon warehouse in a location actually destroys more job than it creates.
- hhs 5y ago
  The writers of South Park commented on this (and which, more broadly, was inspired by a Ray Bradbury novel): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Wall-Mart_This_Way_Comes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Wall-Mart_This_Way_C...
goatlover 5y ago
I think I'll watch something on it tonight after making a purchase.

If you have a senator or representative this would be a great time to ask what the fuck is the NLRB doing when there's this much anti union activity going on? And if they don't respond some more direct action might be necessary.

randomfinn 5y ago
> If you have a senator or representative Most of us don't, but I've been looking at the lobbying numbers and they don't seem that expensive. I think with crowd funding and smart targeting of the money it might not be that difficult to buy change.
- harry8 5y ago
  Are you suggesting we should crowd fund to get the money for politicians elected by the people to actually for the people?
  - joquarky 5y ago
    The Onion "suggested" this 12 years ago. https://www.theonion.com/american-people-hire-high-powered-lobbyist-to-push-inte-1819571821 https://www.theonion.com/american-people-hire-high-powered-l...
  - kqr 5y ago
    Unfortunately that's how most of our capitalist democracies work.

KennyBlanken 5y ago

And if Amazon is trying to set up a distribution center in your state, county, or town: fight it. At the very least insist on language that prohibits any sort of corporate welfare. No tax breaks, no free infrastructure. Bezos is the richest man in the world; he can afford to run a new sewer or water main to his big fancy warehouses, instead of making a county's worth of low-income blue-collar folks pay for it. He can afford to pay property tax. Etc Same for Walmart. Same for every fucking corporation. Stop giving corporations breaks to "bring jobs" to your town. Soon as that corporation finds a better deal somewhere else, or the workers get too 'uppity', they'll shop around and move to a town more desperate than yours.

thelucky41 5y ago
If the next town over does not follow this strategy, you will quickly find yourself in a diminished community with less public services and available jobs.
- randmeerkat 5y ago
  If we insist on giving up our principles because someone else may also give up their principles, then we’re damned to a race to the bottom that neither of us will ever escape.
- throwaway2048 5y ago
  "better things aren't possible" isn't the cutting rebuttal people think it is.
- Jiejeing 5y ago
  If has been shown that opening an amazon warehouse in a location actually destroys more job than it creates.
hhs 5y ago
The writers of South Park commented on this (and which, more broadly, was inspired by a Ray Bradbury novel): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Wall-Mart_This_Way_Comes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Wall-Mart_This_Way_C...

goatlover 5y ago

I think I'll watch something on it tonight after making a purchase.