• ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Let’s be realistic here. The majority of people don’t care, at all, about how the workforce of the place they buy things from is being treated. By and large, they happily buy things from companies with MUCH worse practices than Amazon without a second thought. If child and slave labor don’t move the needle for them, why would the (comparatively-speaking) paradise of working at Amazon?

  • Art3mis@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    “But if I dont subjugate an underclass and kill babies then someone else will and they might make money doing it.”

    -literally the problem with gestures broadly

  • jeniferariza@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Exactly. I don’t need socks delivered like emergency medicine — I’d rather the worker gets a real lunch break.

  • Suavevillain@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    You can make money without being cruel or awful to your workers. But every mega corp just wakes up and picks the most exploitive option humanly possible.

  • DupaCycki@lemmy.world
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    Both are entirely possible. But only one will exist, because Amazon absolutely needs all the money in the world.

  • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Wait weren’t you americans having a whole striking day on May 1?
    What happened, didn’t the regime crumble under your powerful relentless resistance?

  • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
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    5 days ago

    Progress!
    25 years ago I could get everything I need within 1 hour by riding the tram or my bicycle to the store.
    Where staff with a 3-year education recommended the right product for me, and weren’t aggressively pushed by their employer to upsell.
    (This wasn’t in the US though).
    Today, the only things left in the city are shops for smartphones, sports betting, vapes and barbers where the haircut somehow costs half as much as the mandatory minimum wage with taxes.

  • HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub
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    5 days ago

    Honestly I don’t think it can. In USA there is this shit called “law of precedence” and also there is this precedence that means companies are liable in court if they don’t prioritize shareholder profit.

    Any reform that could possibly work must probably start with outlawing stock markets and loans.

  • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    We don’t want or need one hour shipping. We want Jeff bezos to divide his net worth equally among all his employees so they can have a comfortable living while working their asses off every day.