Amazon finds an alternative workforce of people with disabilities

Re:Amazon finds an alternative workforce of people with disa... by dmix on Monday March 25, 2019 @09:17PM (#19488409)

This worldview almost always ends up creating no jobs rather than any jobs for a greater amount of people. Always in the name of ‘good intentions’.

Having a job and financial independence vs nothing at all is the real world reality for the vast majority of these people.

Just because Amazon makes these jobs available is not taking other well paying jobs away from them. That’s not how this works.

Wether or not there should be more high paying jobs to capable disabled people is a different question.

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Re:Amazon finds an alternative workforce of people with disa... by danite on Monday March 25, 2019 @09:53PM (#19488614)

The US is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. If we want to make providing disabled people with fulfilling jobs that pay a good wage a priority, we are entirely capable of accomplishing that.

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Re:Amazon finds an alternative workforce of people with disa... by dmix on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @12:39PM (#19493434)

This statement is so full of naivety. The type of stuff I might have thought when I was 16 and didn't know how a country becomes (and stays) wealthy in the first place.

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