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Technically it's Amazon's money, not yours. You can't write the donations off on your taxes, for example.
Maybe I'm out of the loop but why not?
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> I got the impression their warehouses were pretty damn good compared to other warehouses This is the correct impression. Amazon warehouses are almost always a step up in both pay and quality of life vs. the other local employment options. Source: many friends work(ed) the industry. Amazon was seen as trading your autonomy in for a better overall place to work. The memes about their warehouses being the worst in the…
Ex con here, lived in the halfway house. No one, and I mean NO ONE took Amazon warehouse jobs. And that is saying a lot. We took jobs with metrics requiring we pull 60 pieces of cardboard per minute out of garbage and trash from a 75mph conveyor belt over working Amazon. We had to wear kevlar glove 'sharps' protection so the needles in the trash didn't poke us and give us HIV. This was still preferred over Amazon war…
The other personality I've noticed is someone who prefers a much more "sane" (boring but very predictable work) working environment with a ton of rules around it. They enjoy being treated more like robots.
I could be projecting here, but I've seen more than a dozen or so datapoints - of course directly connected to my personal bubble so there is bias at play.
I'd absolutely never take an Amazon warehouse job. I'd be looking at jobs like you describe.
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That's truest of the big ones, imo. "Power corrupts" etc., even when that power is a non-profit. I upvoted you since the sentiment is correct. The nice thing about AmazonSmile is that you could pick from the small ones you know well and trust. Now, Amazon will donate to the biggest ones without our choice, which is definitely worse.
>Now, Amazon will donate to the biggest ones without our choice, which is definitely worse. Worse, Amazon has set up their own charities to donate to.
> "our ability to have an impact was often spread too thin" If that's the supposed reason, I call bullshit. Could've just reduced the number of charities.
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Kinda off topic but why do grade school kids need a MacBook air?
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I haven't bought anything from Amazon in years and you shouldn't either. Buying things from them supports slave labor, union busting, and low wages.
I think this is a little short-sighted on Amazon's part. PTA/PTOs were onboarding loyal Amazon customers via Amazon Smile because of the fundraising. In the last PTO I was involved with, Smile accounted for about 2% of our donations ($3000/year = ~$150K in household spending from our school). To put that in perspective, about 90% of our $150K annual fund raise was direct donations from parents and local businesses, A…
Kinda off topic but why do grade school kids need a MacBook air?
I haven't bought anything from Amazon in years and you shouldn't either. Buying things from them supports slave labor, union busting, and low wages.
Same reason we use 3$/hour labor to make clothes rather than $30/hour. How much would clothing cost then?
Is it fair to burden the working poor with prohibitively expensive goods to raise wages beyond a market equilibrium level? No, not really. Decades of economic analysis to corroborate this viewpoint.
Though there will always be a winner and a loser with shifts in income. Can be cases where it makes sense to advantage some groups at the expense of another, even if it's less optimal in a total sense