Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day
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Re: Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day
#2way to go!
as consumers, we can help by boycotting amazon.
Re: Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day
#3Cue Amazon putting in more robots!
Re: Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day
#4Cue Amazon putting in more robots!
The amount of smug proclamations about how all these workers are going to be replaced by robots in these threads is really gross.
Nearly everyone that posts on HN is in a situation where their employer holds vastly more power than themselves in their employer/employee relationship, statistically are you likely being screwed, and you aren't going to be Jeff Bezos one day either.
Re: Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day
#5way to go! as consumers, we can help by boycotting amazon.
Yea so that way they'll have no jobs at all!
Re: Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day
#6Cue Amazon putting in more robots!
The amount of smug proclamations about how all these workers are going to be replaced by robots in these threads is really gross. Nearly everyone that posts on HN is in a situation where their employer holds vastly more power than themselves in their employer/employee relationship, statistically are you likely being screwed, and you aren't going to be Jeff Bezos one day either.
I mean... it's happening.
So either we continue to deny it isn't or we actually start those conversations now and figure out how we live in that world.
And there is a correlation between actions like this and the desire to have a more automated workforce. Not saying that as blame because there are many other reasons and you can look at the reasons their jobs are so bad right now anyways.
But we can't ignore it.
Re: Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day
#7Cue Amazon putting in more robots!
The amount of smug proclamations about how all these workers are going to be replaced by robots in these threads is really gross. Nearly everyone that posts on HN is in a situation where their employer holds vastly more power than themselves in their employer/employee relationship, statistically are you likely being screwed, and you aren't going to be Jeff Bezos one day either.
Ambivalently, this is the reality of things, unless you restrict globalization and implement domestic laws against automation, economic pressure is going to provoke automation in many areas, first in the most automatable and later on in higher value added areas...
Re: Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day
#8What would it effect Bezos Net Worth to double the warehouse operatives hourly rate to $22?
Re: Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day
#9Yes. Don't be a scab and cross the picket line. Don't buy from Amazon today.
Re: Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The amount of smug proclamations about how all these workers are going to be replaced by robots in these threads is really gross. Nearly everyone that posts on HN is in a situation where their employer holds vastly more power than themselves in their employer/employee relationship, statistically are you likely being screwed, and you aren't going to be Jeff Bezos one day either.
I mean... it's happening. So either we continue to deny it isn't or we actually start those conversations now and figure out how we live in that world. And there is a correlation between actions like this and the desire to have a more automated workforce. Not saying that as blame because there are many other reasons and you can look at the reasons their jobs are so bad right now anyways. But we can't ignore it.
When this was science fiction it was assumed we could all work less, not fewer people working more for less pay.