It's so obvious that the point is the cruelty and control and demoralization, because it is ABSOLUTELY not the most efficient way to work.
Amazon leaves money on the table because it wants to be cruel. Every business does, essentially.
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I firmly believe that after a certain amount of money there is no longer “joy” in having money and they all have to find something else to get their fix so to speak.
It just so happens that hurting people (or more accurately, having the power to make people hurt themselves and put themselves through humiliation to please you) is the only thing that they enjoy after they’ve won the money part of life.
Even small businesses do this, owner gets the car they’ve always wanted and then just decides to make everyone that works for them as miserable as possible, even if it costs them more money to do that, because the high from that is WAY better than the money they could otherwise make.
When you recognize how common it is that sociopaths work their way into power, precisely because they get pleasure from controlling and being cruel to others, a lot of how the world is starts to make sense.
to be a billionaire you have to be a little psychopathic, always involve screwing people over, other business partners, sewing them to get thier IP as your own. or if someone like soros taking advantage of situations.
I think this is hard for the majority of us to grasp because most of us will never get to that level of success. Capitalism has everyone so focused on getting the money that they can't even imagine what it would feel like to actually get it.
I mean, the game monopoly taught a handful of generations just how awful people become when they run the game and someone ends up owning everything after controlling the bank and cheating the whole time. By the end of the game everyone else wants to toss the board game into the air or a fire and end it all.
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When I saw this earlier I made this:
Yes Amazon, like most multi-billion dollar corporations, hates you. They hate their customers, they hate their workers, they hate government standing in their way, they hate the planet.
they just spent 200bn on AI, so from the grapevine, of amazon employyes/WF, they are looking to downsizing more somewhere.
You may think the poster above is being hyperbolic. As someone who used to work there they are not. They hate you and everything they say and do reflects this.
Yep. I'm not saying there no good employees, but upper management and the overall direction of Amazon corporation is uncaring at best, openly hostile at worst.
So many years without civil war between oligarchs and their slaves (normal human beings) is beyond me
Bread and circus
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Stop supporting this fucking company and burn down their warehouses.
Personally I just wish this had legal consequences for real people, because ultimately someone makes those decisions.
Avoiding a single company might be viable, but constantly keeping track of who (and their brands) should be avoided imo is not the solution, but a bandaid fix.
Yeah I can be hard to track all of them. Tracking Amazon isn't though.
The large majority of amazon profit comes from AWS. AWS accounts for around 3.5% of the entire internet. It’s also at least a third of all cloud computing.
It might be nearly impossible to avoid giving amazon your dollar if you are online.
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Funny you can buy a whole bunch of styrofoam from amazon, gasoline from your local gas station is ingredient #2 for making sure that warehouse stays burning for a while
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With all sincerity: We should use Eminent Domain to take majority control in stock in every publicly traded company.
Why settle for taxing these assholes when we could seize their assets and run the shit ourselves?
Any monopolistic company should be ran this way.
You wanna be the only one? Fine, but now US taxpayers own you. Congrats on winning capitalism!
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This reddit-originated post is being reposted every so often, and every time I remind people that firing pregnant women is a criminal offence in most European countries and no sane ~~oppressor~~ entrepreneur would do it.
Amazon left Quebec after a warehouse unionized. Not legal either, Walmart got successfully sued over something similar in the past. They still did it.
On the plus side, Amazon left.
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Not a company issue, but a country issue. Shithole country = shithole societal norms
I lived in the US for three years. This is the first time I heard that women get two weeks off for delivery and offices have milking rooms.
In the U.S. the only thing women are guaranteed nationwide are 12 weeks of unpaid leave and only if you work at a company with 50 or more employees.
Nobody said any of that time off was paid.
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At the end of the day it’s just people managing people, right? Surprised that low level managers haven’t drawn a line. Really speaks to the lack of solidarity and the lack of job security.
Antihuman
And they wonder why the fertility rate is going down...
Anazon polices their warehouse force with ruthlessly designed computer programs. It doesn't matter why you fell behind, they fire them by computer.
It's not like the government is going to stop them.
I don't use Amazon, and I never have
Everyone using them is complicit.
People are so willing to cast others aside for their own convenience and justify it by saying "other people are doing it too"
Sure, but also, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
It's functionally impossible to ethically buy all the things you need and want. Yes we should all try to do our best and not just give up, but the actual solution is with systemic changes in our laws and regulations and how we set up our society. Everyone should focus on that long-term goal, while making small changes to their behavior. But that simply isn't feasible for everyone to do and that is the bigger issue.
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pregnancy-related hospitalization
How much does anyone want to bet that this was for going to the hospital to give birth?
Given how they were treated before, more likely a miscarriage or complications early on.
We workers are alone on the fight against these capitalist ghouls—no judge, politician, or any other 'leader' is gonna come to save us. And there's nothing we can do to win the fight. But there's one thing we can stop doing—giving them our labour. That's the only leverage we got. Striking, quitting, not applying for those jobs.. yes, I know many people aren't in a position where that's an option, I myself have worked delivering for Amazon (and it's not even in my top 5 worst jobs), but if you can't afford to quit a shitty job at an Amazon warehouse you can't afford to be having a baby, either.
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Bezos should have write a billion dollar check to every plaintiff.
This is why I cancelled my Amazon and routinely avoid buying from them.
My phone broke and I got locked out of all my corporate accounts, from google to other emails, to those cash paying apps (that are refusing to give me another way to get my money, they are just planning on stealing it from me,) to my Amazon account.
I tried opening a new one and they wouldn't let me. Good riddance. I wanted to ditch those parasites anyway. Now all I need is a smart phone running graphene or something, and open source on my computers.
Yep, I got my current Samsung about 3 years ago before I really understood what was happening and what I wanted.
I plan to phase out a lot of apps and relying on this stuff in my next phone. I want to set up a NAS and self host for my backups and photos.
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Absolutely brutal.
I know this is an over simplification, but wouldn't being unemployed be better than working for Amazon? They're so over-the-top cruel to their employees, between piss bottles, tornado deaths, and now this?
I heard a while back there was a leaked internal memo Amazon was worried they might run out of workers since turnover is so high.
I guess some people dont mind/can tolerate those brutal conditions, so why would Amazon care to improve things?
Generally speaking, being able to afford food and shelter from the elements is much preferable than living under a bridge and starving. The former is much better for your baby as well.
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