Amazon Has Transformed the Hasidic Economy

Post by ars » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 10:01 PM UTC

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> this commitment translates into a 28% poverty rate The table used to calculate federal poverty level doesn't scale correctly to high numbers of children. You can make rather a lot of money, yet be considered poor if you have lots of children. Additional children don't cost as much as the federal government thinks.

Can you back that up with some additional data? According to this: https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/federal-poverty-level-fp... A family of 8 is under the poverty level if they make less than $43,430. I'd not consider that to be a "rather a lot of money" if raising 8 children is involved.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 10:38 PM UTC

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Understand that the way Buzzfeed covered it obscures the very real fact that there's a huge amount of controversy regarding this specific Satmar Hasidic community. This is not a question of Antisemitism, there have been very real issues directly caused by prominent rabbis within this community. These controversies are known to pretty much anyone in the NY metro area, so it makes sense that the NYTimes (being located…

I think anyone who is not familiar with these particular communities in Lakewood and Brooklyn will see warning flags of anti-semitism in a lot of related comments about them. I would just like to voice some support for the people speaking up about them, because this is not a problem with Jews, or even Orthodox Jews. It is specific to these particular Hasidic communities and the fraud is rampant and expanding.

Post by toasterlovin » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 11:03 PM UTC

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Amazon seller here. Amazon doesn't make funds available for disbursement until 7 days after delivery. At that point funds are available for disbursement, but they aren't necessarily disbursed. Seller accounts created before 2011 have what are called daily disbursements: the seller has a button they can click once every 24 hours that will disburse all available funds. Most sellers accounts opened since then have bi-we…

God I hate the word bi-weekly; if you hadn't specified 14 days I would've thought it was twice a week. "bi-weekly" is never the right word to use because you always have to add additional information that makes it redundant.

Post by Aloha » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 11:08 PM UTC

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> I wonder if the vendor gets his money earlier from Amazon if he delivered it faster No - Amazon pays sellers every other week.

This is not necessarily true. Some sellers can request disbursement at any time. For a breakdown of when Amazon pays sellers, see [0]. In this case, the only delay is the 7 day holding period after the latest possible delivery date. For example, if you sell and deliver a product on Jan 1st, you may be able to disburse the funds as soon as the 8th. However! This example does not hold for the situation described by the…

Post by Smithalicious » Wed, Oct 16, 2019, 11:17 PM UTC

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God I hate the word bi-weekly; if you hadn't specified 14 days I would've thought it was twice a week. "bi-weekly" is never the right word to use because you always have to add additional information that makes it redundant.

For some reason the bi-weekly vs. semi-weekly thing doesn't confuse me, but I take your point and the dictionary seems to agree that it can mean either every two weeks or twice a week.