News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Amazon stops charitable donations via Amazon Smile if you turn off notifications. Parent comment

Re:Amazon stops charitable donations via Amazon Smile if you... by service_bus on Saturday October 12, 2019 @01:28PM (#21234739)
For me it's not so much about how he uses his money, but how he gets it.

Raking in obscene amounts of money by working people to the bone and forcing them to pee in bottles and not be able to take proper breaks is unconscionable in my book, and can't bring myself to support such a morally repugnant business model.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Amazon stops charitable donations via Amazon Smile if you... by BurningFrog on Saturday October 12, 2019 @05:53PM (#21236638)
Here's actual Amazon worker with a different perspective:

https://quillette.com/2019/07/19/the-problem-with-tourist-jo...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Amazon stops charitable donations via Amazon Smile if you... by icebraining on Saturday October 12, 2019 @07:44PM (#21237155)
"Terrific race, the Romans. Terrific."

I don't doubt that much of the reporting on the working conditions at Amazon warehouses has been exaggerated, but someone who views taking a sick day in a year as a moral failure is not a good spokesperson to make that case. And it's interesting that he doesn't mention that the "Jeff Bezos's generosity" he benefit from came exactly because of those Amazon critics he's debunking (Bezos said so himself).

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Amazon stops charitable donations via Amazon Smile if you... by wpietri on Saturday October 12, 2019 @07:27PM (#21237068)
That is not exactly a neutral source: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quillette

More than that, it's not what a great number of Amazon workers say. And have been saying since at least 2012: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Amazon stops charitable donations via Amazon Smile if you... by BurningFrog on Saturday October 12, 2019 @08:34PM (#21237376)
Sure, but do you imagine the viral piss bottle stories come from a neutral source?
[ Parent | on HN ]