I see “modern day slavery” and I stop reading. There are no whips. No rape. No families torn apart. No slave ships. Grow up people.
Chattel slavery is only one form of slavery.
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#52I see “modern day slavery” and I stop reading. There are no whips. No rape. No families torn apart. No slave ships. Grow up people.
It's such a gross misuse of the word.
Amazon employees are voluntary and by definition would rather have the job than not. It's nothing like slavery. Saying it is waters the concept down and is incredibly disrespectful to those who were actual slaves.
That doesn't mean the job shouldn't be improved, but anyone equating it to slavery loses all credibility and can't be taken seriously.
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#53I see “modern day slavery” and I stop reading. There are no whips. No rape. No families torn apart. No slave ships. Grow up people.
What would 'modern day slavery' look like? And what would be the most appropriate phrase for the scenario described in the link?
Modern-day slavery looks like someone kidnapping you and forcing you to work in a brick kiln because they showed you the equivalent of $200 USD before taking it away from you and so now you "owe them money".
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#54Other Amazon employees have commented on the thread saying that their working conditions don't match the picture the OP described - so either practices differ between warehouses, or there's something else going on.
Practices differ between warehouses and at different times, depending on volume.
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#55I see “modern day slavery” and I stop reading. There are no whips. No rape. No families torn apart. No slave ships. Grow up people.
The thing is, their is a reason they say "modern day slavery" and not "slavery." The implication here is that just because there are no actual whips, no literal rape, and no families torn apart forever doesn't mean we should think this is acceptable. It's the modern equivalent of slavery. No, it's not slavery with whips and rape. It's a different type of slavery. Hence the qualifier. Anyways, I did you the service of…
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
The northeast and upper midwest are pro-union and people aren't raised to think that way in those places. It's a big country.
Fair enough. There are parts of the country for which it is definitely true, though. I'm part of a number of Amazon employee groups on Facebook and the recent news of strikes by Amazon employees over Prime day was met with almost universal derision there - by FC employees, not even managers or tech workers.
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#57Even if Amazon were to be brought in line, the situation won't get much better, it would simply move to smaller no-name contractor companies that would do the same, the only difference being that there will be too many and too small to ever get the focal point attention that Amazon is getting.
The fundamental problem here is there are too many low skilled people for the number of low skill jobs available. Considering the birthrates in this country are already low, this looks like that that problem is solving itself and yet apparently we need to increase the immigration numbers for low skilled immigrants, to keep exacerbating the situation?
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#58I was wondering why the design is so shit. Turns out that the link is from old.reddit. Can someone change the link?
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
What would 'modern day slavery' look like? And what would be the most appropriate phrase for the scenario described in the link?
One obvious example of modern day slavery in the United States is prison labor. It's not rare, and it's still disproportionately black people because of our racist "justice" system.
Is your argument that all demographics commit crime at the same rate? For example the vast majority of those incarcerated are in for violent crime, and a significant number of those involve killing.
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#60As AMAs go, this was pretty poor.