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To add insult to injury the tax money would have to be spent once max robotisation hits as well. It's a loose-loose situation really.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"is turning out"? It's been a long time...
Good point. It's just that things keep getting worse and worse. And we are enablers of this BS (I sure am.)
About the only bright part of Amazon at this point is that they clearly hope to eliminate these jobs entirely through automation - of course then we have the social issue to deal with of how we make sure the benefits of automation transfer to society as a whole and not just the shareholders of Amazon.
Oh, heavens. That almost sounds like a high school teacher's schedule.
"Two half-hour breaks were the only time off my feet"
Kind of like working in a supermarket?
"toiling for up to 55 hours a week"
The horror??
"[the warehouse] is so vast that just walking to the toilet could take more than five minutes"
Ok, this is actually absurd, and I would expect against some kind of regulation. If they don't have adequate facilities how can they expect efficient work, anyway?
Is it just me or is Amazon turning out to be even more evil than Walmart ever was? It's just cuz they're an "innovative" tech company, that we let them get away with it?
Amazon gets called out because they are the biggest not because they are the worst. Same reason large fast good gets called out but local diners get a pass. the drudgery and low pay may be the same but the name recognition is not.
On a side note, As for Wal Mart, they were called out for similar reasons but also both are called out because setting wage floors especially through the of min wage laws in the US affect government payouts for unionized contracts.
Is it just me or is Amazon turning out to be even more evil than Walmart ever was? It's just cuz they're an "innovative" tech company, that we let them get away with it?
Were they ever very innovative? Their initial success was pretty much based on having a bunch of investment capital and using it to kill their competition and grab market share without making profits for many years. Is it really very difficult to become an 'innovative' giant corporation when you've captured a huge part of the market like that?
As the article demonstrates, this luxury comes with a high social cost.
"My own story of how I became a human robot could not have been darker. Shifts began in the gloom at 7.30am and ended at 6pm, long after the sun had gone down." Oh, heavens. That almost sounds like a high school teacher's schedule. "Two half-hour breaks were the only time off my feet" Kind of like working in a supermarket? "toiling for up to 55 hours a week" The horror?? "[the warehouse] is so vast that just walking…