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Re:What Companies Are For by ttoinou on Sunday August 25, 2019 @02:17PM (#20794534)
They provide valuable jobs, otherwise employees wouldn't agree to it
Re:What Companies Are For by TaylorAlexander on Sunday August 25, 2019 @03:06PM (#20794831)
They provide shitty jobs for a lot of desperate people. If we don't work towards a world with good working conditions, we won't work in good conditions.
Re:What Companies Are For by ttoinou on Sunday August 25, 2019 @03:08PM (#20794842)
Improving conditions has a cost. Would you rather see them unemployed?
Re:What Companies Are For by egypturnash on Sunday August 25, 2019 @04:09PM (#20795222)
Paying them more and having Bezos and the other people at the top of Amazon not be rich enough to buy entire countries is an option, too.
Re:What Companies Are For by TaylorAlexander on Sunday August 25, 2019 @08:58PM (#20796744)
false choice. I would rather see the profits to shareholders reduced sufficiently to pay for fair working conditions.

Actually I lied. I would rather see a network of cooperatively owned companies replace Amazon where all workers in that system have good jobs, no one is a billionaire, and money spent stays more local.

Re:What Companies Are For by nickpp on Monday August 26, 2019 @06:00AM (#20798530)
What’s stopping you build it then? Bezos built his vision, now it’s your turn!
Re:What Companies Are For by TaylorAlexander on Monday August 26, 2019 @12:42PM (#20801289)
I’m working on it.
Re:What Companies Are For by ttoinou on Monday August 26, 2019 @01:21PM (#20801739)
Great! Good luck
Re:What Companies Are For by garethgriffiths on Sunday August 25, 2019 @06:14PM (#20795960)
A level playing field would be better. As is bosses of companies a being paid huge multiples of what their employees can expect to earth
Re:What Companies Are For by WalterBright on Sunday August 25, 2019 @09:03PM (#20796764)
> They provide shitty jobs for a lot of desperate people.

I know many millionaire employees of Amazon.

Re:What Companies Are For by TaylorAlexander on Sunday August 25, 2019 @09:08PM (#20796779)
I’m not talking about every employee. I’m talking about certain jobs amazon offers that are anti-human.
Re:What Companies Are For by svachalek on Sunday August 25, 2019 @02:48PM (#20794724)
So did slavers, or parents wouldn't have agreed to sell them their children.
Re:What Companies Are For by ttoinou on Sunday August 25, 2019 @03:06PM (#20794834)
Yes, children can be put in a more productive environment thanks to this
Re:What Companies Are For by AngryData on Sunday August 25, 2019 @04:54PM (#20795519)
That is assuming those employees aren't desperate for work. Had we adequate social welfare, or a glut of unfulfilled good jobs, I might agree, but when your choice is "die or work at the level we want", they aren't really given a real choice.
Re:What Companies Are For by p1necone on Sunday August 25, 2019 @06:14PM (#20795963)
This is incredibly naive (or disingenuous?). When the alternative is just not having a job people will take a lot of shit, that doesn't mean it's okay.
Re:What Companies Are For by Mirioron on Sunday August 25, 2019 @06:25PM (#20796015)
And if the company didn't exist they wouldn't have the option of having that job. How is it not beneficial to have the company to those people?
Re:What Companies Are For by p1necone on Sunday August 25, 2019 @09:29PM (#20796846)
Good thing that theres plenty of other options on the scale between uncaring capitalist monster and no company at all.
Re:What Companies Are For by Mirioron on Monday August 26, 2019 @07:07AM (#20798804)
The more filters you add to companies the fewer successful ones you'll have. Filtering out companies from our current selection would leave you with fewer of them, not more.