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Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day

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Post by thundergolfer »

f00zz wrote: post #387
thundergolfer wrote: post #345

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You’ll be getting downvoted because what you make “here” and it being upper-middle class pay is not relevant at all to these workers, unless you want to make a disingenuous suggestion that they move countries to “here”.

Of course I understand that. I just find it very hard to sympathize with the plight of someone making $15/hour. It seems high, even taking differences in cost of living into account.

> It seems high

Senior FAANG engineers make ~$200/hr. How does $15 seem at all high?

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Post by anigbrowl »

rayiner wrote: post #377
anigbrowl wrote: post #351

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Focusing at the bottom end, a 20% wealth hit is a really big problem for poor people. And just because they're well-off compared to other countries or previous periods in history is meaningless if they have solvency issues in the present. Being flat broke in our advanced technological society is a serious hardship and can not be measured in simplistic absolutes.

It’s not a 20% reduction in wealth. It’s an 8% share of an income pool that’s six times bigger versus a 10% share of an income pool that’s much smaller.

As if the effects of that fall in income won't compound, and as if you were factoring in purchasing power parity and negative as well as positive externalities. Stop with the baby arguments Rayiner.

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Post by dang »

ionised wrote: post #380
rayiner wrote: post #373

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Your examples are terrible. East Timor is a classic case of conflict based on language and religion (Indonesia is Muslim, East Timor is Portuguese-speaking and Catholic.) Your water example involves a private company being forced to raise rates to pay for a dam that it was forced to build as part of a government I funded mandate.

My examples are so bad that you had to deliberately mischaracterise the first and third, and completely ignore the second. Kudos.

We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle and ignoring repeated requests to stop. As I've explained many times, that's not what this site is for. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

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Post by tekknik »

dragonwriter wrote: post #409
tekknik wrote: post #382

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This is a very globalist view. What about region specific jobs? The worker in Bangladesh absolutely isn't in the local competitive pool for service jobs. When we talk about exported goods, then sure.

> This is a very globalist view. We have a very globalized economy, whether that's your preference or not. > The worker in Bangladesh absolutely isn't in the local competitive pool for service jobs Jobs are not things that inherently exist in places and which people compete for, jobs are created by the confluence of supply and demand. Yes, some demand is highly localized, such as for certain service work, but demand…

So the worker at mcdonald’s has competition from bangladesh because of price elasticity? how does the worker from bangladesh compete with local only jobs? you’ve failed to make your point.

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Post by slips »

dang wrote: post #174
slips wrote: post #136

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Cool. You're one tough dude. We're all jealous of you. Congratulations, it's gonna be a fun life.

Please don't do flamewar or make arguments personal on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Perhaps call out the other person as well?

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Post by polotics »

RHSeeger wrote: post #128
polotics wrote: post #50

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Perhaps the state should ensure Bezos pays taxes at the level a CEO paid taxes in the 1960's: America's best decade so far...

> the 1960's: America's best decade so far. Why do you say that?

Civil rights, Apollo, total cultural leadership, leading decolonisation the world over, Bretton Woods still on, net exporter still, pre local peak-oil...
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