Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless
by wnkrshm on Thursday September 13, 2018 @12:49PM
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Turn it around again, Amazon has underrun the competition that was paying living wages before and destroyed the jobs those people had before, by not paying taxes.
Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless
by civilian on Thursday September 13, 2018 @01:52PM
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Their competitors were not paying "living" wages. Brick and mortar retail, especially mom&pop stores, were notorious for paying low wages.
Destroying jobs is a good thing. It means that Amazon can pass on the savings to consumers. I know that Amazon is disliked in Seattle & the bay area, but if you go around the rest of the country, people love amazon.
These people needed government support, and Bezos is giving them a job, so now they need less government support than they did before. Bezos is helping to give money to people who would have otherwise been totally on welfare.