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I agree: capitalism is good for businesses but not designed to consider the welfare of employees, environment, neighborhood, etc. Those tasks must be taken up b
by giardini 4y ago
I agree: capitalism is good for businesses but not designed to consider the welfare of employees, environment, neighborhood, etc. Those tasks must be taken up by other organizations. History has shown that a system or interlocking organizations and laws can work, although there are inefficiencies. [There may also be social structures used in other countries that are more efficient for both corporations and workers but that is a story for another day.]
Amazon has shown us once again that despite best intentions, given a chance, employers will squeeze employees for all they can and that employees need protection. Otherwise, to a corporation a worker is just a part, a cog in the machine, as replaceable as a beam of wood or a piece of pipe or an item in a spreadsheet, to be used up and discarded once worn out.
Amazon might as well be one of the coal-mining companies from the union-busting era (like the movie "Fire In the Hole"). The only part missing from the original story are the gun thugs, and even here Amazon is trying (as was done before) to use police and political influence to coerce workers.