What would it effect Bezos Net Worth to double the warehouse operatives hourly rate to $22?
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> Not more much than his divorce.
Haaaa..aaaar :]
Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day
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#22What would it effect Bezos Net Worth to double the warehouse operatives hourly rate to $22?
Yep. The situation is similar to what Ford had. Salary increase might happen if they have a shortage of candidates. But will there be a shortage? Or are they just the best employer for a lot of people?
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#23What would it effect Bezos Net Worth to double the warehouse operatives hourly rate to $22?
Some back of the napkin math:
650,000 Amazon workers.
Let's say 600,000 are min(ish) wage and get an increase from $11/hr to $22/hr.
That's a 13.2B increase per year.
Jeff Bezo's net worth is 165B.
Jeff Bezo's Net Worth drops 8% after one year.
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#24Yes. Don't be a scab and cross the picket line. Don't buy from Amazon today.
Everyone on this site uses AWS.
It's not simply about hurting Amazon, it's about sending a signal. "This specific part of our business is threatened by the way that we're running it." Let it make business sense for Amazon to treat people like human beings. Otherwise it won't.
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#26What would it effect Bezos Net Worth to double the warehouse operatives hourly rate to $22?
not relevant, free market, they decide to work there, or not.
> not relevant, free market, they decide to work there, or not ..
Yea they can decide to move to the next low-pay job, zero-hour contract, no benefits, wages barely pays the rent, on food stamps ..
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#28Yes. Don't be a scab and cross the picket line. Don't buy from Amazon today.
Here are instructions to block AWS from your computer as well: https://bigboy.us/other/aws/
Don't be a scab and cross the picket line. Don't use anything hosted on AWS today.
(Which basically means "turn off your computer because nothing will work" today)
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#29Yes. Don't be a scab and cross the picket line. Don't buy from Amazon today.
Scabs are workers who cross the picket line, not customers. If you think boycotts are a good idea, ask the auto unions how well customers not buying cars worked out for their members.
Customers boycotted Stop & Shop when workers went on strike earlier this year, and it worked out pretty well for the workers[1].
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/us/stop-shop-strike.html
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean... it's happening. So either we continue to deny it isn't or we actually start those conversations now and figure out how we live in that world. And there is a correlation between actions like this and the desire to have a more automated workforce. Not saying that as blame because there are many other reasons and you can look at the reasons their jobs are so bad right now anyways. But we can't ignore it.
Or we stop it from happening. It isn’t inevitable. We are all of us making a choice to allow it.
Honestly I think its been inevitable once we first started to introduce robots into manufacturing.
Robots replacing humans is not new, we have been doing this for at least 40 years.
Resources continue to be spent on this technology (and related technology, even if not originally for this purpose).
Unless we stop any robotic research, its happening wether we like it or not.