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Re:The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items... by andrepd on Saturday January 20, 2018 @01:04PM (#16194461)
What an appalling reasoning.

You realize you could replace 'worker' with 'serf' and 'Amazon' with 'feudal lord' in that post and it would be a shining defence of feudalism?

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Re:The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items... by terminal_city on Saturday January 20, 2018 @02:14PM (#16194883)
Nonsense. The kid works 4 days a week for good pay for the jobs performed. He admits to banking 650 a month, with only 250 in non-work related expenses. He works three months, he can quit, and have enough cash on hand to support at least 6 months of job search... and then the dole will kick in.

The catch? He actually has to want to do it.

How is this like serfdom?

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