Why does big always become evil?
Child comments here are spot on. If you jam all of humanity through an economic blender, you will not come out with what you put in.
Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers
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#32Why does big always become evil?
In someways small companies have more potential to be evil, because they often fly "under the radar".
"We shouldn’t fetishize mom and pop operations. They offer lower wages, skimpier benefits, and inferior labor protections."
See: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/01/small-businesses-workers-...
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#33Why does big always become evil?
Accountability. When humans turn into numbers for lack of personal interaction it is much easier to increment, decrement and decimate.
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#34In my opinion, it won’t do anyone any good for him to quit “in solidarity with” the fired workers. If he wants the situation to improve, he should remain VP and use his power to help make things better. Now he‘ll probably just be replaced with someone who is less sympathetic to the workers.
Is amazon one of those companies with a hundred VPs or does the title actually mean something?
There are less than 20 Distinguished Engineers in all of Amazon. Today there's one less.
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#35Why does big always become evil?
Their interests are not aligned with ours. If we had more democracy inside of companies, their interests would be more aligned with ordinary people.
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#36Why does big always become evil?
Big is winning at the game of capitalism.
Capitalists own capital. And they exploit labour.
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#37Credit is due to anyone willing to sacrifice, no matter how small, for the voiceless and underrepresented.
Re: Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers
#38In my opinion, it won’t do anyone any good for him to quit “in solidarity with” the fired workers. If he wants the situation to improve, he should remain VP and use his power to help make things better. Now he‘ll probably just be replaced with someone who is less sympathetic to the workers.
He chose so most likely because he did not possess the power you imagined. I am very cautious about (and most of the time opposed to) the narrative "if something/someone is bad, don't complain about/leave it but try to change it and make it better", this narrative stands on a very important yet implicit assumption that this something/someone has minor defects or it is a very important person in your life (like your parents, siblings that no matter what you won't give them up). For a bureaucratic as large as Amazon, not to mention this guy, even a higher level won't be able to change this "culture stuff" in a reasonable interval of time. I am not saying it is completely impossible, but why would he risk his career and a lot of time struggling with this. Life is too short, just fk it and go to a better place or some place at least deserves your efforts to make it better.
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#39We really need more courageous people like Tim Bray!
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#40The implication that race or gender is involved in the firings is pretty silly.
“In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.”
― Rex Stout