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People keep seeming to apply for jobs at Amazon warehouses making $15-16/hr, so...
Hundreds of people applied to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.
Slightly unrelated but there is something weirdly consistent about how Amazon treats their workers and people who have to work with them. I remember just exhibiting an AWS conference was the most time-intensive grueling event I've ever worked in the tech industry. Obviously not as hard as a factory-working job, but they hold the only event in the industry that has you working from 7 am to 7 pm w/ no break if you want…
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Tangentially one thing that I've pondered is the the Amazon Fulfillment Centers are typically on the periphery exurban areas such that they will have the benefits of the minimum wage legislation of the urban area but that wage will go a lot farther and they will have a lot shorter commute then if they were located in the urban area itself as a normal retail job would. That seems smart. For instance, $15 an hour goes…
Poor people generally don't live in suburban or exurban areas. And if they can't afford decent transportation then they will either face very long commutes or move and be stranded with whatever jobs are in the periphery exurban area.
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Or they will have jobs at other retailers, that will step in to take Amazon's market.
They'll be in for a rude awakening when they find out other fulfillment center jobs are just as hard and pay equal or less.
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If a company cannot pay it's workers properly then, to be honest, it really shouldn't exist.
People keep seeming to apply for jobs at Amazon warehouses making $15-16/hr, so...
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> It bothers me that people are constantly demonizing Amazon for their labor practices rather than demonizing the market conditions that have led to Amazon warehouses being a place people are willing to work. That's about as useful a statement as "Thoughts and prayers." To change the labor market you go after the parties you can affect. Amazon is one. There are many others on the demand side. Retaining the workforce…
Or you just raise the minimum wage. We arrived at this point because those with money use it to influence government to their exclusive benefit.
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> As with all companies paying workers to do a job, the compensation should reflect the confluence of supply and demand in the market. The market has no moral compass. If you decide that the market dictates what we should do, then your actions will reflect the morals of the market, i.e., none. Supply and demand is a statement of what "is", not what "should be". To some approximation.
It looks like you’re both arguing for the same thing: a higher federal minimum wage.
What 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.
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Or you just raise the minimum wage. We arrived at this point because those with money use it to influence government to their exclusive benefit.
Amazon is paying above minimum wage already. What do you suggest they should be paid?
Good luck getting a that kind of law passed in America though. Far too socialist.