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You should resent your masters, the people who can afford to spend huge sums of money to suppress minimum wage increases, or benefits for gig workers, or greate

by Kapura 3y ago

You should resent your masters, the people who can afford to spend huge sums of money to suppress minimum wage increases, or benefits for gig workers, or greater public oversight. These people are making every other person's life worse, except for those who can also isolate themselves in a wealth bubble. The policies of wealth and unbridled capitalism in the USA have stifled wage growth, increased homelessness, and driven down life expectancy. You should be mad about this. You gain nothing by trying to hold a moral high ground.

xyzelement 3y ago
The fact that you conceptualize of people with more wealth than you as "masters" totally explains your stance on this topic. I struggle to feel how Bezos "enslaves me" or makes my life worse (and on the flip, I can easily name 3 ways he makes my life better.) I suspect one's perspective on this depends a lot on one's a-priori sense of victimization and it's just not what I lead with. So yes, I can see that how you feel makes you think what you think, but it's not for me.
- wackget 3y ago
  > I struggle to feel how Bezos "enslaves me" or makes my life worse That's great for you! But have you considered the radical notion that other people with different circumstances to you exist? Do you know anyone who works for Amazon? How are they treated? Do you know anyone who works for a company who supplies Amazon? How are they treated? Do you know anyone who purchases products from Amazon? Who delivers those products, and how are they treated?
  - xyzelement 3y ago
    I perceive that folks are more or less lining up to work for Amazon even in the roles you're describing, meaning it represents meaningful opportunity for them in contrast to their other alternatives. The Amazon delivery guys I interact with seem pretty happy. I read the same things you read about the horrors of warehouse work but it's pretty hard to know how much of that is spin vs real vs normal. Again, presumably if it was the worst people won't work there.

by Kapura 3y ago

xyzelement 3y ago

The fact that you conceptualize of people with more wealth than you as "masters" totally explains your stance on this topic. I struggle to feel how Bezos "enslaves me" or makes my life worse (and on the flip, I can easily name 3 ways he makes my life better.) I suspect one's perspective on this depends a lot on one's a-priori sense of victimization and it's just not what I lead with. So yes, I can see that how you feel makes you think what you think, but it's not for me.

wackget 3y ago
> I struggle to feel how Bezos "enslaves me" or makes my life worse That's great for you! But have you considered the radical notion that other people with different circumstances to you exist? Do you know anyone who works for Amazon? How are they treated? Do you know anyone who works for a company who supplies Amazon? How are they treated? Do you know anyone who purchases products from Amazon? Who delivers those products, and how are they treated?
- xyzelement 3y ago
  I perceive that folks are more or less lining up to work for Amazon even in the roles you're describing, meaning it represents meaningful opportunity for them in contrast to their other alternatives. The Amazon delivery guys I interact with seem pretty happy. I read the same things you read about the horrors of warehouse work but it's pretty hard to know how much of that is spin vs real vs normal. Again, presumably if it was the worst people won't work there.