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You know that not every company is Amazon, right? You can't just generalize those terrible experiences to every company. I happen to agree that there needs to
by rockemsockem 3y ago
You know that not every company is Amazon, right? You can't just generalize those terrible experiences to every company.
I happen to agree that there needs to be some big legal changes to ensure workers at Amazon and other companies are treated better, because before Amazon it was Walmart, and in 50 years it'll probably be another company. But that doesn't mean you can use Amazon as a reason to legislate personal wealth away.
- yedava 3y agoI'm not singling out any one company. Walmart did indeed pioneer labor exploitation. Amazon just made it more efficient. Facebook, Google got rich off surveilling users and eroding user privacy rights. Focusing on some specific companies serves to obfuscate the fact that this is an exploitative economy built up over decades with policies that weakened society at large. A relatively tiny section of society became powerful enough to rearrange society to their benefit. Bring up the topic of central planning and you'll have everyone pointing out the folly of putting all the power in the hands of a few people. Our corporation ruled society is not that far off from a centrally planned dystopia. Instead of patting our backs comparing ourselves to the communist bloc, we need to focus on the technology we have today and what possibilities the technology could have opened up, and ask why the said possibilities haven't become a reality.