Earlier quoted context omitted.
The future of work is shitty jobs like this, but a la Uber you "get your side-hustle on" AKA have no rights or security as an employee ever anywhere. e: Which, speaking of Marxism, this situation will keep you permanently alienated from your coworkers and will forever prevent community bonds from forming with them.
What do you think these people were doing being being drivers for uber?
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#192My fear is that the future of work for most people is not unemployment, but shitty jobs like this. My feeling is that in order to avoid this and prosper, the people need to own the robots that do all the work (Marxism heyy). If robots provide huge productivity gains, then they will provide those gains for their owners. If it’s the big corporations that own them, they will see the gains. But as long as people are trea…
or learn electronics and coding and be the guy/person who fixes the robot.
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#193In December, she took a week of medical leave. Last month, they retroactively denied her leave and then fired her for having a negative UPT balance. She'd worked there for years.
It's an awful, abusive company, and even though Trump's reasons for going after Amazon are the wrong reasons, I hope he successfully gets them shut down anyway.
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#194My fear is that the future of work for most people is not unemployment, but shitty jobs like this. My feeling is that in order to avoid this and prosper, the people need to own the robots that do all the work (Marxism heyy). If robots provide huge productivity gains, then they will provide those gains for their owners. If it’s the big corporations that own them, they will see the gains. But as long as people are trea…
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
The future of work is shitty jobs like this, but a la Uber you "get your side-hustle on" AKA have no rights or security as an employee ever anywhere. e: Which, speaking of Marxism, this situation will keep you permanently alienated from your coworkers and will forever prevent community bonds from forming with them.
> AKA have no rights or security as an employee ever anywhere. I get what you are saying, but somehow this attitude also rubs me the wrong way sometimes. It's like "Hey, I'll pay anyone a nickle per piece of trash they pick up in the local forests" Soon: "NiceNature is the worst company ever! They exploit their workers to pick up garbage without proper protection, the employees have no rights or securities and are fo…
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#196However, I know there's another side. At some point, a company the size of Amazon begins consuming all available oxygen. I don't know what the tipping point is, but I know workers in some areas have about as much choice in where to work as I do in cable providers. That's obviously undesirable, because without a competitive labor market, Amazon is in practice able to treat employees however they choose, because the one emergency brake built into the loop is gone.
I wish there were some simple way to codify regulations about employee treatment once you become as powerful as a small nation that don't also encumber 150-employee plastic tubing manufacturers. At that level, pure laissez faire is desirable to me, because you do have options as an employee, and no reasonable case can be made that you've got to bog down your employer in a regulatory mess. Then, once you've got some single digit of the GDP in resources, you can be expected to operate with increased oversight and expectations, as a tax for the opportunity cost your mere presence visits upon other firms.
If that inhibits growth of megacorps... well, that's OK.
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'm trying to understand what compels them to be so toxic in their work environment. Their warehouse employees are extremely replaceable and amazon knows this.
That shouldn't be an excuse for anyone with a shred of humanity or decency.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
The future of work is shitty jobs like this, but a la Uber you "get your side-hustle on" AKA have no rights or security as an employee ever anywhere. e: Which, speaking of Marxism, this situation will keep you permanently alienated from your coworkers and will forever prevent community bonds from forming with them.
> AKA have no rights or security as an employee ever anywhere. I get what you are saying, but somehow this attitude also rubs me the wrong way sometimes. It's like "Hey, I'll pay anyone a nickle per piece of trash they pick up in the local forests" Soon: "NiceNature is the worst company ever! They exploit their workers to pick up garbage without proper protection, the employees have no rights or securities and are fo…
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
The future of work is shitty jobs like this, but a la Uber you "get your side-hustle on" AKA have no rights or security as an employee ever anywhere. e: Which, speaking of Marxism, this situation will keep you permanently alienated from your coworkers and will forever prevent community bonds from forming with them.
> AKA have no rights or security as an employee ever anywhere. I get what you are saying, but somehow this attitude also rubs me the wrong way sometimes. It's like "Hey, I'll pay anyone a nickle per piece of trash they pick up in the local forests" Soon: "NiceNature is the worst company ever! They exploit their workers to pick up garbage without proper protection, the employees have no rights or securities and are fo…
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
But I do already own some of the robots. I have Amazon stock in my 401k. That's what "the people owning the robots" looks like. What you're getting at is that there are many people right now who are too poor (and are going to be too poor) to ever own any part of the robots. This century's great debate is forming up to be whether or not we should give them some anyway even though they can't "earn" it for whatever movi…
> I have Amazon stock in my 401k. It's weird seeing someone writing this in a thread about how Amazon exploits its workers for profits (ie. in part for its shareholders).