Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter Within Its Headquarters

Re:Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter W... by throwaway18917 on Monday May 15, 2017 @12:50AM (#14339234)

How sweet. When are they going to stop fucking over their employees? Oh right, never until they unionize.

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Re:Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter W... by dang on Monday May 15, 2017 @04:42AM (#14340077)

This comment and several others you've posted violate the HN guidelines. We ban accounts that do that, so please (re)-read the following and post civilly and substantively from now on.

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Re:Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter W... by ars on Monday May 15, 2017 @11:20AM (#14342243)

> We ban accounts that do that

From his username, and comments he's posted, he expects (wants) to be banned, and he'll just make a new account.

Do you also ban IPs? Or will that not work anyway?

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Re:Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter W... by throwaway18917 on Monday May 15, 2017 @10:08AM (#14341665)

HN is nothing but startup bros, armchair economists, and card-carrying Ayn Rand fan club members.

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Re:Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter W... by ryanx435 on Monday May 15, 2017 @08:12PM (#14346352)

don't forget AI-utopians, where all of the problems of the future will be solved by robots and basic income

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Re:Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter W... by dang on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @01:18AM (#14347540)

More skepticism than believerism about that kind of thing, I think, though the community is divided on most such matters.

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Re:Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter W... by throwaway18917 on Monday May 15, 2017 @10:06AM (#14341651)

Or you could kiss my ass. :) Ban me from this cesspool; see if I give a shit.

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Re:Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter W... by bingomad123 on Monday May 15, 2017 @01:07AM (#14339289)

Probably when American consumers will be willing to pay 10% extra for every purchase.

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Re:Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter W... by arglebarnacle on Monday May 15, 2017 @02:26PM (#14343845)

The idea that fickle consumers are to blame for unethical and often unlawful exploitation of employees is propaganda with only the thinnest veneer of economics painted on it.

I suppose I understand why the very rich and business interests make arguments like this, but usually it's just ordinary people. Who benefits? It's about time we held companies like Amazon accountable for the way they harm and exploit their employees instead of helping shift the blame to their customers.

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Re:Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter W... by PhasmaFelis on Monday May 15, 2017 @02:36AM (#14339600)

I'm not convinced Amazon would suffer significantly if they raised their prices by 10% on average. No other seller can compete with them on convenience, and people are willing to pay for that.

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Re:Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter W... by easilyBored on Monday May 15, 2017 @02:51AM (#14339668)

I'm not convinced Amazon would suffer significantly if they raised their prices by 10% on average.

So there you have it! Create your own "Amazon," 10% more expensive but we treat our employees better.

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Re:Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter W... by PhasmaFelis on Monday May 15, 2017 @02:13PM (#14343723)

I didn't say that consumers would choose to pay extra for decent employee treatment. I said that Amazon could just do it and get away with it. Mind you, I'm also not convinced that the cost of treating your employees like human beings is as high as 10%.

Also, for fuck's sake stop making excuses for abusive employers. Why would you do that?

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Re:Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter W... by biocomputation on Monday May 15, 2017 @02:57AM (#14339694)

It won't be long before this is actually used very successfully against a company like Google or Amazon or Facebook.

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