The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items an hour

Re:The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items... by BurningFrog on Saturday January 20, 2018 @01:21PM (#16194561)

Then again the employees are free to quit at any time, but the fact that they don't means these jobs are the very best alternatives they have.

It's perhaps a shitty alternative, but it's undeniable that without Amazon they'd do something even shittier.

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Re:The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items... by Symbiote on Saturday January 20, 2018 @01:36PM (#16194655)

You could say the same about the children working in the cotton mills, but we banned that.

Without Amazon, there might be more local tax revenue, more local shops providing employment, less focus on extracting 100% from every employee.

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Re:The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items... by bb88 on Saturday January 20, 2018 @06:00PM (#16195912)

And more businesses serving those local shops, including restaurants, dentists, drug stores, etc.

I've never seen a great diversity of businesses that surround a warehouse, say.

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Re:The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items... by suby on Saturday January 20, 2018 @01:34PM (#16194643)

Depends how high the turnover rate is.

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