Re:Airbnb Employees Speak Out About Bullying and ‘Toxic’ Wor...
by eru on Sunday May 28, 2017 @10:04AM
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Definitely! At Google I saw some first-hand evidence of those principles.
Outsourcing the uncritical would-be employees makes that kind of differentiated treatment even easier to pull off for our monkey brain without losing any sleep over moral qualms at night.
But that's probably a good thing: at least the outsourced eg cleaners have a better chance of being the profit centres of the cleaning company than they ever would at eg a bank or Google.
Ultimately, if anyone has a moral burden to help lower income people, it's society as a whole (and that means mostly its richest members who bear the brunt of taxation) instead of just eg Walmart (and Walmart's mostly poor customers): we can't afford to penalize companies whose business model hinges on employing low-skilled people. Otherwise we'll get even less opportunities for people low on opportunities already.
Outsourcing the uncritical would-be employees makes that kind of differentiated treatment even easier to pull off for our monkey brain without losing any sleep over moral qualms at night.
But that's probably a good thing: at least the outsourced eg cleaners have a better chance of being the profit centres of the cleaning company than they ever would at eg a bank or Google.
Ultimately, if anyone has a moral burden to help lower income people, it's society as a whole (and that means mostly its richest members who bear the brunt of taxation) instead of just eg Walmart (and Walmart's mostly poor customers): we can't afford to penalize companies whose business model hinges on employing low-skilled people. Otherwise we'll get even less opportunities for people low on opportunities already.