Amazon Workers Say They Struggle to Afford Food and Rent

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• psvrh@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What does Jeff’s yacht cost? Half a billion? And he paid to widen a canal to dock it?

  We do not tax these people anywhere near enough.

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  • dukethorion@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How would increased taxes help the employees?

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    • psvrh@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In the before times, when corporate and marginal income tax rates were high and stock buybacks were illegal, a business could do two things with its profit:

      • Reinvest it into the business, as employee compensation, equipment or facilities, and/or
      • Pay taxes.

      In the 1980s, we gave them a third option:

      • Keep the money …which for some reason was supposed to not encourage the rich to hoard money and/or engage in non-productive financialization.

      The rich, of course, hoarded and engaged in financial engineering pretty much immediately, and everyone else, which meant employees, suffered for it.

      If you look at wages-vs-productivity curves you can see society “break” in the 1980s, with the rich running away with their wealth and everyone else getting stuck in a quagmire of low wages and starved public services.

      So that’s why high progressive taxation helps employee: it forces the rich to either invest or find the nation.

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    • metallic_substance@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tomorrow morning just head out your front door, find a school bus, and just get on it

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• TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well. Maybe they should try working for a company that has money. Jeez

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• Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Y’know what would fix this? Broad wave of hands a comp-an-y stooore! Amazon should just provide them housing. Since they would be living in corporate housing and that isn’t free, we could get them to pay rent! Oh and they would also need food to eat, so we can have our store provide that for them. Food isnt free though…

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSObRNcPAv8

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• Beaver@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Time to boycott the company.

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  • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nobody is going to boycott Amazon. Too many rely on AWS.

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    • Pavidus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Totally understand your point. They will never lose enough customers to actually feel it.

      That being said, I’m doing my part.

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    • Beaver@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m doing it right now.

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    • bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I wish I could avoid aws, but learning how to use a new cloud host is expensive and time consuming. And the other choices aren’t that much better

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• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Meanwhile, local businesses in towns everywhere struggle to hire employees because Amazon pays better. Messed up.

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