The Human Cost of Amazon’s Fast, Free Shipping
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#2Seems to me that the real story here isn’t Amazon but the heartbreaking frequency of vehicular crashes. Always fun to pick on Amazon though.
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#3Ofcourse Amazon will try to protect them selfs against lawsuits
I do think that Amazon have some moral issues, Since I came across Amazon M turk.
They basically have army of over 500,000 registered workers Those people make few cents per micro tasks while amazon make x10 that amount of each task and leave tiny slice of the cake for its core users.
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#4Ofcourse Amazon will try to protect them selfs against lawsuits I do think that Amazon have some moral issues, Since I came across Amazon M turk. They basically have army of over 500,000 registered workers Those people make few cents per micro tasks while amazon make x10 that amount of each task and leave tiny slice of the cake for its core users.
I highly doubt Amazon makes 10x profit over what they pay their workers. My guess would be that they have very thin margins per worker, and just have a lot of workers.
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#5Seems to me that the real story here isn’t Amazon but the heartbreaking frequency of vehicular crashes. Always fun to pick on Amazon though.
The article pointed out -- at some length -- ways that the brave new gig job world is different: less training, more inexperienced drivers, more layers of contractors and subcontractors, drivers under very aggressive time pressure, drivers in vehicles with which they are unfamiliar, and drivers on routes with which they are unfamiliar. And for the coup de grâce, Amazon -- unlike Fedex, DHS, UPS, or the USPS -- worms out of liability for any of these accidents, eliminating pressure to reduce them.
Agree or disagree, but it's hard to see how you read the article and didn't see the extensive discussion of ways Amazon is more dangerous.
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#6Ofcourse Amazon will try to protect them selfs against lawsuits I do think that Amazon have some moral issues, Since I came across Amazon M turk. They basically have army of over 500,000 registered workers Those people make few cents per micro tasks while amazon make x10 that amount of each task and leave tiny slice of the cake for its core users.
i think 10X is conservative tbh
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#7Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20889204
(The link is different, but it's the ProPublica version of the same article, so the commentary is very relevant.)
Re: The Human Cost of Amazon’s Fast, Free Shipping
#8Ofcourse Amazon will try to protect them selfs against lawsuits I do think that Amazon have some moral issues, Since I came across Amazon M turk. They basically have army of over 500,000 registered workers Those people make few cents per micro tasks while amazon make x10 that amount of each task and leave tiny slice of the cake for its core users.
i think 10X is conservative tbh
I like how the comment above you is "I doubt they make as much as 10X" while you're saying they're making much more. I'd side with you, though, considering how scummy Amazon's practices can get. The way they treat their workers and "shave off costs" (read: make work conditions inhumane) is a capitalist wet dream and a worker's nightmare.
Re: The Human Cost of Amazon’s Fast, Free Shipping
#9Ofcourse Amazon will try to protect them selfs against lawsuits I do think that Amazon have some moral issues, Since I came across Amazon M turk. They basically have army of over 500,000 registered workers Those people make few cents per micro tasks while amazon make x10 that amount of each task and leave tiny slice of the cake for its core users.
I highly doubt Amazon makes 10x profit over what they pay their workers. My guess would be that they have very thin margins per worker, and just have a lot of workers.
The naivety here is astounding...
Re: The Human Cost of Amazon’s Fast, Free Shipping
#10Ofcourse Amazon will try to protect them selfs against lawsuits I do think that Amazon have some moral issues, Since I came across Amazon M turk. They basically have army of over 500,000 registered workers Those people make few cents per micro tasks while amazon make x10 that amount of each task and leave tiny slice of the cake for its core users.
i think 10X is conservative tbh
I doubt they can have such high margin while there is so much competition : https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-mechanical-turk/competito...