Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers

Re:Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers by ksec on Monday March 16, 2020 @08:59PM (#22600292)

I agree but I see this as a problem we could fix using financial tools. Rather than letting thousands if not millions of small business and jobs completely gone.

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Re:Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers by opportune on Monday March 16, 2020 @09:13PM (#22600395)

Or face a total financial system meltdown if the fix is poorly implemented.

I think the simplest solution is for the fed/government to simply give everybody cash, since the root of the problem is that a lot of people have temporarily lost their incomes due to their jobs being essentially banned in response to the pandemic (eg a lot of people in retail outside of supermarkets/food). Anything that involves nonpayment is extremely risky

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Re:Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers by ksec on Monday March 16, 2020 @11:34PM (#22601369)

That is actually a great argument. Directly injecting liquidity to citizens. At roughly 200M adults in the US, $2000 per adults would be $400B. Except $2000 doesn't really last long.....

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Re:Amazon to hire 100k warehouse and delivery workers by devdas on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @01:42PM (#22619231)

Cut the military budget, you can save a lot of money that way.

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