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> Amazon is just an online store and cloud provider, and the way it treats its low level workers is as close to slavery as the law permits it to be I like your
by prepend 3y ago
> Amazon is just an online store and cloud provider, and the way it treats its low level workers is as close to slavery as the law permits it to be
I like your call for reason, but I think your Amazon statement is hyperbole. I’m weaning myself off Amazon, but Amazon employees aren’t anywhere close to slavery. It’s a hard job, but seems to compare really well to other competing warehouse or delivery or whatever jobs.
I feel like making inaccurate statements detracts from the core of our discussion, why is Amazon getting billions in subsidies?
I also think that these subsidies need to have a rate aspect. If a trillion dollar company gets $5B in subsidies that’s very different from a $5B company getting the same. Huge corps are huge and just by existing they are probably maximizing random subsidies so the complaint isn’t against the org, but against the governments that give them.