Re:If Jeff Bezos wants to help low-income people why not jus...
by vixen99 on Saturday September 15, 2018 @02:59AM
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Create a fabulously successful business that puts 350,000 jobs on offer (that didn't exist before Amazon was built), and you're likened to a thief? What in this press release, https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/response-to-senato... - is inaccurate? It would be headline news if it was. Currently it appears that the US is enjoying extremely low unemployment so presumably there are plenty of other jobs around. People can vote with their feet.
Re:If Jeff Bezos wants to help low-income people why not jus...
by ardy42 on Saturday September 15, 2018 @12:14PM
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> Create a fabulously successful business that puts 350,000 jobs on offer (that didn't exist before Amazon was built), and you're likened to a thief?
No, and if you'd read more closely you'd have realized I didn't do that. I merely used a analogy involving a thief that clearly illustrates one characteristic that's relevant here. Analogies don't map one-to-one onto a topic.
You really should have gotten it, too, since I didn't just stop at the analogy. I went to apply the concept it was meant to illustrate directly to the situation.
Furthermore, the fact that Amazon is a "job creator" doesn't hold it, its labor practices, or the jobs it creates above criticism.
It's not really charity if you have a hand in creating the problem. A thief who pledges to contribute 10% of his loot to help his victims isn't doing good. Likewise a multi-billionaire businessman who employs people at low wages isn't deserving of kudos for setting aside a little of his wealth to help the poor, especially when he could make decisions that would help much more.