Re:The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Am...
by n4r9 on Friday November 23, 2018 @02:49PM
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It's a general criticism of the system. Highlighting Amazon's particular behaviour is useful as a demonstration of how/where the system fails, and may produce short term wins if it incentivises amazon to stop being inhumane.
Re:The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Am...
by Alex63 on Friday November 23, 2018 @03:12PM
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I sincerely don't want to oversimplify your argument, but it seems like the logical end-point would be a global socialist/communist society. Is that your desired/intended outcome?
Re:The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Am...
by ABCLAW on Friday November 23, 2018 @04:21PM
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What...?
You get a more functional labour economy by having labour able to access better opportunities. If there's a killer sales agent that won't apply for my sales position because Amazon is dunking him with 14 hour days repeatedly, no one benefits besides Amazon.
Re:The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Am...
by Alex63 on Friday November 23, 2018 @04:34PM
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I agree, and I would not want to see regulation or laws that prevent labour access to other opportunities. But asking people to work overtime for specific reasons/period doesn't prevent them from looking for other opportunities. That seems like a straw man.
Re:The human costs of Black Friday, explained by a former Am...
by n4r9 on Friday November 23, 2018 @03:35PM
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That's a deceptively complex question. I don't necessarily agree that that's the logical endpoint to my reasoning: it might be that we have to continue to appeal to basic human greed/power drives - in a regulated way - in order to progress and develop as a species. It might be that a global socialist society can't do that. I'm not sure. I just think that right now, many developed countries could certainly do with reinforcement of labour rights.
To answer from another perspective, a society resembling something like socialism or anarchism is what I personally would prefer to live in. I have doubts about whether we can move towards that from the current situation or whether it's workable, full stop. But it sure would be nice.
Is your issue with Amazon, or with the system of capitalism in general? If the latter, why are people criticizing Amazon specifically?