Amazon to employees: Quit your job, we’ll help you start a delivery business

Re:Amazon to employees: Quit your job, we’ll help you start ... by IggleSniggle on Monday May 13, 2019 @04:24PM (#19903564)

This was my first comment, but the heart of the exploitation here is that the regulatory burden being placed on the worker IS the exploitation, because the related cost is hidden. Removing the regulatory burden is not the right solution to the exploitation.

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Re:Amazon to employees: Quit your job, we’ll help you start ... by matz1 on Monday May 13, 2019 @04:35PM (#19903674)

If your concern is safety then one of solution is to impose high penalty/punishment for reckless driving.

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Re:Amazon to employees: Quit your job, we’ll help you start ... by IggleSniggle on Monday May 13, 2019 @06:28PM (#19904637)

Amazingly, people often fail to respond to negative incentives, because they think they will be lucky enough to avoid them. See: - heart attacks - lung disease - saving for retirement - vehicle emissions - etc.

And, even if you can’t afford the punishment for killing another human being, you might still be able to afford to take the risk to do so. It’s a sort of lessor version of a free-rider problem.

Even there, this is assuming that people that take on this level of personal liability are even aware that they are taking that risk.

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Re:Amazon to employees: Quit your job, we’ll help you start ... by matz1 on Monday May 13, 2019 @08:11PM (#19905431)

negative incentives works otherwise we wouldn't have it. Does it work perfectly ? no. The goal is to reduce. To eliminate completely maybe impossible.

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Re:Amazon to employees: Quit your job, we’ll help you start ... by IggleSniggle on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @09:32AM (#19909273)

Preventative medicine is the most effective treatment.

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