Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punishment for taking breaks

Re:Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punish... by ythn on Monday April 16, 2018 @02:26PM (#16851452)

You're right, the analogy is not good. I was more thinking about making an app for fun that solves some problem, makes you and your users a little money on the side, mostly intended for teenagers/college students, etc., but then the masses move into to squeeze every last cent out of it and I get demonized and accused of exploiting workers, etc, when it was never meant to be a life-sustaining employment opportunity to begin with.

I.e. "biting the hand that feeds you" syndrome. Can't we just make cool things that don't require you to give 401k matching to everyone who touches your cool thing?

Again, maybe this doesn't apply to Uber and they totally could be giving full benefits to all drivers, etc., but I'm just saying in general

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Re:Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punish... by throwaway2048 on Monday April 16, 2018 @04:20PM (#16852345)

this mentality becomes a problem when its pushing real jobs that people rely on out, especially when we are talking about the founders getting immensely rich off this.

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Re:Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punish... by aisengard on Monday April 16, 2018 @02:38PM (#16851563)

Someone has to provide necessities to society. In absence of government directly providing it, we force companies to do it. What you want is, essentially, socialism, with a little bit of the market carved out for market capitalism. Sounds good to me!

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