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Re: 'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter

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Post by stnmtn » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 6:57 PM UTC

refurb wrote: post #397

TheRealSteel wrote: post #382

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People have rent to pay. The "you agreed to it" argument only works if the person genuinely had other realistic options available to them. Nobody would work for peanuts and pee in bottles if they had another realistic option.

Why would you assume workers don’t have other options? The unemployment rate before Covid was the lowest since the 50’s. If the Amazon job is so bad then there must be plenty of better options?

Why do you think that? Doesn't it make more sense that if people are accepting a bad job it's because all their options are bad as well?

Re: 'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter

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Post by blacktriangle » Mon, Apr 12, 2021, 3:15 PM UTC

libraryatnight wrote: post #399

sudosysgen wrote: post #356

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Given the fact that nowadays doctor is mostly a rote memorization educational path, I often wonder if increasing the number of doctors but reducing hours and somewhat pay would be an overall improvement. Both me and my girlfriend were majors of our promotions and had more than enough in the way of academic achievement to become doctors, but the insane workload was a very effective deterrent.

This is purely anecdotal but, please, no more influx of antibiotic and steroid dispensing doctors that don't know anything else. I'm so tired of doctors that give me the distinct impression they're the equivalent of a tier 1 desktop support rep for the human body. Or if we must have them, please keep the confined to the minute clinics at the drug store and bar them from billing themselves as real GPs.

Don't blame the doctors, the entire medical establishment from pre-med undergrad to the hospital has been captured by the insurance companies with the backing of federal regulation. They've removed any doctor/patient relationship with a simple heuristic that (surprise!) always results in some pharmaceutical intervention.

Re: 'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter

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Post by blacktriangle » Mon, Apr 12, 2021, 3:16 PM UTC

vimacs2 wrote: post #179

TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #93

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For decades, I never thought people who kiss ass could have been serious. I was sure they were just cynically playing a game of advancement, and I despised them for it. What I've come to learn -- as disappointing as it is to me -- is that some people view this sort of thing as actual, legitimate opportunity, and are acting out of internal integrity. They don't see the hypocrisy of the power imbalance and how the comp…

This rings so true and is seen in a lot of other industries as well. I believe the world of gaming is among the worst for this where hordes of customers ardently defend the clearly abusive practices of multinational companies that do not give the slightest shit about them except their influence on their bottom line. Gamers find it easier to be up in arms about journalists being bad at video games and women having too…

Gamers don't care about women having opinions on their hobby.

Gamer care about opportunistic women's study majors who know nothing about gaming insulting their favorite pastime to try and justify their wasted lives.