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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