Exploding profits while workers paid starvation wages...Translated: Capitalism

[pbmus]

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[kimbutgar]

1. And notice how he pushed back on Seattle when they tried to raise the minimum wage

I’ve been not using amazon as much as I used to on purpose. These mega corporations are destroying our country and the greed is out of control.

[Blue_true]

3. Actually, what Bezos pushed back on was the crazy tax that Seattle was trying to pass.

If it had passed, Seattle would have gotten humiliated in Court, because the law was differential and clearly discriminatory against a specific class of businesses. Bezos worked with the Seattle mayor and got Seattle money to build low cost housing and avoid getting nothing after losing in Court. Bezos also converted part of a new Amazon site in Seattle to low cost housing, he had no obligation to do that.

I am not trying to say that Bezos is great, he isn't, just like other CEOs in America, he looks at the bottom line instead of naturally taking a more humanistic view across all of Amazon's employees. I am sure that the people in the office with Bezos, and regional managers and such get well paid and don't have financial worries, but like the typical American corporation, the generosity stops below a certain pay grade.

[kimbutgar]

6. I stand corrected

[Blue_true]

7. That was my understanding, the fight was about low cost housing.

But Bezos, Amazon and other major companies seriously need to consider the interests of the whole of society instead of just stockholders, because if they don't start, they and their stockholder are going to lose everything. A gated, guarded community can't hold off widespread social chaos outside the gates, the gate will get overrun and everyone within killed outright or abused, that is how anarchy works.

[KPN]

4. +1. Agreed.

[Ohiogal]

2. And yet ....

https://thinkprogress.org/amazon-workers-rely-on-food-stamps-24ab86dd6495/

what is wrong with this picture....

[KPN]

5. Yup. And, so, we are careening toward upheaval.

Getting to the point that I'm actually hoping and looking forward to that.

[Blue_true]

9. Anarchy will suck for everyone. But really rich people think they will somehow escape it.

Where can they run, where can they hide where they won't be found and dealt with. Their shortsightedness is astounding, their mere belief that they can build a fortress strong enough to survive anarchy is laughable.

[ck4829]

8. K&R