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Re: Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers

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Post by barry-cotter »

Frost1x wrote: post #63
product50 wrote: post #40

Where is the comment here on billionaire taxes? Literally Amazon is the only company because of which I feel comfortable right now sitting in my house vs. panic buying.

I'll be more than happy to step in for that void. Amazon and Bezos should certainly be taxed their share. I for one don't want to support tax avoidance/evasion and theft from labor. They're not running a charity work or a public service disguised as Amazon marketplace (there is Amazon Smile to be fair) by any means, at least not to my knowledge. Amazon doesn't make me feel any bit safer and no business should be capi…

There’s a huge demand for the service they provide and they’re trying to do everything in their power to satisfy it. I doubt Mr “Your margin is my opportunity” will fail to reinvest almost all of the profits either.

Can’t we leave this bullshit to when it seems like a problem again, instead of meaningless background to the plague, while our loved ones die, economies implode and daily life is wrenched into new shapes?

Re: Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers

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Post by SQL2219 »

hirundo wrote: post #68

If this were a Bond movie, Bezos would be cackling in his secret lair about how his viral plan was coming to fruition. Bond (played by Idris Elba) would then cough on Bezos, who would whip out his antidote, which Bond would grab, escape, and release to the world before being killed by Thanos. (Pitch Meeting, call me)

He looks like Lex Luther.

Re: Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers

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Post by social_quotient »

fiblye wrote: post #79
WalterBright wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We must have a rent holiday if those businesses and their workers are to survive. We'll get a lot of rent forgiveness naturally. If a strip mall has some tenants who cannot make rent in this crisis, who are they going to get who can pay? The pragmatic approach is to keep your existing tenants, because their survival is your strip mall's survival.

We might get a lot, but it likely won’t be enough. Many land owners would already prefer to leave their buildings empty for years over even considering negotiating on rent. I doubt anything can change their minds.

It’s odd but really true. Does anyone have insight why this is the case?

Re: Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers

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Post by stevenwoo »

allovernow wrote: post #73
gregschlom wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NPR talked about a study testing cardboard actually. Up to 24h under ideal conditions. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/14/8116090... Link to study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v...

That's actually really good news, thank you. You can just leave packages outside for a day or two.

Paranoid thought - what if it's on plastic or exposed steel on something inside the package (like the wrapping on a box or an ladle that doesn't come fully enclosed in a box), you need to wait three days or so.

Re: Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers

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Post by nightski »

WalterBright wrote: post #72
Frost1x wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll be more than happy to step in for that void. Amazon and Bezos should certainly be taxed their share. I for one don't want to support tax avoidance/evasion and theft from labor. They're not running a charity work or a public service disguised as Amazon marketplace (there is Amazon Smile to be fair) by any means, at least not to my knowledge. Amazon doesn't make me feel any bit safer and no business should be capi…

And Amazon makes money by providing people with goods and services that they need in a manner safer than alternatives. Nothing wrong with that.

Nothing wrong with that, but it seems reasonable to me that once a company goes public (or hits a certain size), it no longer makes sense for one individual to have such a large stake in it no matter how essential.

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Post by dave5104 »

gregschlom wrote: post #32
allovernow wrote: post #24

Do we know yet what the probability of packaging borne transmission is? Has anyone seen anything? I saw one study describing virus lifetime on various surfaces but I don't think they tested cardboard. Also I don't know what they're expecting. They either have mountains of stock or they'll be laying these people back off soon when factories close. I think supplies out of China are still disrupted.

NPR talked about a study testing cardboard actually. Up to 24h under ideal conditions. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/14/8116090... Link to study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.09.20033217v...

Same day shipping not sounding so great now!

Re: Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers

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Post by AQuantized »

WalterBright wrote: post #72
Frost1x wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll be more than happy to step in for that void. Amazon and Bezos should certainly be taxed their share. I for one don't want to support tax avoidance/evasion and theft from labor. They're not running a charity work or a public service disguised as Amazon marketplace (there is Amazon Smile to be fair) by any means, at least not to my knowledge. Amazon doesn't make me feel any bit safer and no business should be capi…

And Amazon makes money by providing people with goods and services that they need in a manner safer than alternatives. Nothing wrong with that.

There's nothing wrong with that in of itself, but if it stomps out any potential competition and renders them unable to compete after a certain degree of monopolization, what sort of position will consumers eventually be placed in?

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Post by Kluny »

social_quotient wrote: post #83
fiblye wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We might get a lot, but it likely won’t be enough. Many land owners would already prefer to leave their buildings empty for years over even considering negotiating on rent. I doubt anything can change their minds.

It’s odd but really true. Does anyone have insight why this is the case?

According to Strong Towns, it's because the building can borrow money based on the projected value of rent. If they lower the rent, they can't borrow as much money.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/11/27/the-paradox-o...

Re: Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers

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Post by reaperducer »

hirundo wrote: post #68

If this were a Bond movie, Bezos would be cackling in his secret lair about how his viral plan was coming to fruition. Bond (played by Idris Elba) would then cough on Bezos, who would whip out his antidote, which Bond would grab, escape, and release to the world before being killed by Thanos. (Pitch Meeting, call me)

If Bezos needs an evil villain lair for his secret headquarters, I know a fortress in the American desert with three-foot-thick stone walls, solar and diesel electricity, and its own water facilities, perched on a mountain ridge for maximum visibility 150 miles from anywhere meaningful.

Last I saw, it was for sale for $750k.

Re: Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers

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Post by hr2016 »

hirundo wrote: post #68

If this were a Bond movie, Bezos would be cackling in his secret lair about how his viral plan was coming to fruition. Bond (played by Idris Elba) would then cough on Bezos, who would whip out his antidote, which Bond would grab, escape, and release to the world before being killed by Thanos. (Pitch Meeting, call me)

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