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Re: Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire

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aaomidi wrote: post #77
alangibson wrote: post #22

The Fed is about to induce 3 years worth of rising unemployment by their own estimates, so the days of workers not needing to take crap jobs out of desperation will soon be at an end. https://qz.com/2178359/the-fed-predicts-3-years-of-rising-un...

We’re also living in a volatile time. It might end up meaning a potential civil war is a lot more likely. Desperation creates extremism. I don’t think the US is prepared for the monster it may unleash.

The only people who cry "civil war" are the people wishing for it.

Are you on the right side?

Re: Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire

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etempleton wrote: post #149

When the news broke that Amazon was doubling the salary of corporate employees I mentioned on here how it felt wrong in comparison to what they pay their warehouse workers and drivers and got some backlash on here. A lot of talk about how an engineer provides XXX% more value and supply and demand. Warehouse jobs are back breaking. I don't think they need to be paid as much as a software engineer, but they should be p…

Yeah. I wish healthcare was universal because it's not okay to curry health issues past capability.

Imagine busting your lumbar and then not being to find a construction job or something.

Re: Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire

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Post by scollet »

peanuty1 wrote: post #480
thenoblesunfish wrote: post #396

“Running out of people to hire” is a strange way of saying “Not offering employees enough to want to work there”. To be catty, there are plenty of people to hire, but maybe they’re running out of people to exploit.

It's not sustainable for them to offer, say, $30 an hour starting salary for fulfillment centre employees. As it is, they have to subsidize retail with other revenue lines like AWS and advertising.

Bozos simp.

He doesn't know who you are, doesn't care about you, and likely actively despises your existence.

Why would you ever think of defending a business?

Re: Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire

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throwaway894345 wrote: post #15
zionic wrote: post #4

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This is one reason why these types of megacorps support mass immigration, it provides a steady stream of desperate people they can exploit. Those from other countries also might lack the collective cultural knowledge to stay away.

I hadn't really thought before about how left-wing folks typically want higher wages as well as more mass immigration which inherently suppresses wages. In their defense, they want raises waged by law rather than by market (an elevated minimum wage would raise wages irrespective of immigration), but considering how unlikely a minimum federal wage hike is, it seems like they're pursuing two contradictory goals. EDIT:…

You are literally a right winger.

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PKop wrote: post #137
_dqna wrote: post #41

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It's zero sum. You're hurting your fellow citizens by diluting their labor. You may think this is a righteous position, but from the perspective of a nationalist, you are strictly harming not helping your fellow countrymen, and therefore you set yourself up as their enemy. >only cares about And the prosperity of their own country. It is "selfish" yes. But a selfishness that extends out to their kin and their neighbor…

Did your nurse help you write that comment?

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ryan93 wrote: post #348
jodrellblank wrote: post #221

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> " You're hurting your fellow citizens by diluting their labor " No more so than having children and growing the population that way, which is a concept the right generally supports ("family values", "pro life"). > " you are strictly harming not helping your fellow countrymen " It's not like the right do things to help fellow countrymen; taking away rights ("pro choice"), scorning single mothers instead of helping t…

How many pro immigration leftists live their life as if its no more valuable than anyone else's? .001% maybe.If you wanted to help the global poor sending them American dollars would go a lot further in their own country

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ryan93 wrote: post #696
jodrellblank wrote: post #637

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Being pro immigration doesn't mean you think all the global poor should move 'here' immediately (wherever 'here' is). leftists are more that people who have moved here should be treated as human, not subhuman. It's normal to think your life is more important than other people's. It's weird to live in Texas and think people born 50 miles away in Mexico are inferior but people born 1,000 miles away in New York are the…

I dont know who you think you are responding to. The person i was responding too does think anyone and everyone should have carte blanche to immigrate to america. Also please post the part of my comment where i said hispanics should be treated as less than. Third wold Immigrants in america get treated much better than their own country. As they should! Thats why they come here!

Everyone has the right to move anywhere.

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0daystock wrote: post #168
sophacles wrote: post #96

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I see you get the entirety of your understanding of history and poltics from an actor with alzheimer's. Maybe you could expand your sources a bit to see that this is a lot less true than you imply.

If an ad hominem attack is all you can muster in response, it doesn't show a good faith attempt at discourse.

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alphabettsy wrote: post #51
reaperducer wrote: post #18

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I hadn't really thought before about how left-wing folks Can't HN be the one place on the internet that isn't sullied by tribalism?

Far too late for that unfortunately, but we can try to be better.

I'm not taking these boxing gloves off.

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throwaway894345 wrote: post #48
reaperducer wrote: post #18

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I hadn't really thought before about how left-wing folks Can't HN be the one place on the internet that isn't sullied by tribalism?

I don't have a political tribe, I'm not a partisan, etc. I was hoping HN would be the one place on the Internet where we could discuss things maturely. Notably, I'm not attacking left-wing people or viewpoints here, but observing that there are two goals that are in apparent conflict (which isn't to say they contradict each other or that they're ignoble or anything else).

> I don't have a political tribe

So you're either a liar or you are ignorant. Which is it?

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