Re:"Amazon Is a Breeding Ground for Coronavirus"
by lidHanteyk on Monday March 30, 2020 @10:10AM
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Amazon could always pay their employees a fair wage and not work them to exhaustion. It wouldn't directly impact their chances of catching the virus, but it would improve their odds of survival.
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Re:"Amazon Is a Breeding Ground for Coronavirus"
by jimbob123 on Monday March 30, 2020 @10:17AM
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Fair wages are determined by the market, the ground work done at Amazon is not highly skilled with a surplus of labor that is capable of doing the job.
Re:"Amazon Is a Breeding Ground for Coronavirus"
by amznthrw_2020 on Monday March 30, 2020 @11:04AM
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Odd, though, how recently the market determined that an increase in every Amazon's base wage to $15 was suddenly fair, without a commensurate increase in labor skill or decrease in supply having taken place. And how the market also determined RSUs were no longer fair once the stock price rose high enough.
It's almost as if these things aren't really determined by the impartial, invisible hand of the market at all.