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Re:Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus... by product50 on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:31PM (#22730758)
I hope you realize that this is a sided marketplace. One side having demands means the other side has to pay for it. Now imagine all those families who are at home with many of them jobless - and them paying all these additional costs.

Have empathy both ways.

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Re:Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus... by pixelbash on Monday March 30, 2020 @03:30PM (#22731411)
This ignores how far the market place has listed to one side already. At this point in time I find it a little hard to summon empathy for billionaires.
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Re:Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus... by product50 on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @04:36PM (#22742251)
Just stop with this billionaires argument please and framing it as workers vs. billionaires. I am more talking about families who will have to pay more now to address some of the Union's demands.
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Re:Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus... by munk-a on Monday March 30, 2020 @03:03PM (#22731137)
It's a time of emergency - the fact that the US government is AWOL when it comes to helping to subsidize necessary services like these is the real issue.
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Re:Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus... by gaius__baltar on Monday March 30, 2020 @03:56PM (#22731674)
Username checks out.
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Re:Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus... by product50 on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @04:35PM (#22742238)
Go back to reddit
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Re:Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus... by vkou on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:46PM (#22730925)
If five bucks, and a bottle of hand sanitizer is too much for them to pay, they are free to risk their lives, by doing their own shopping.

If their job is so important that you can't make do without it, pay them more, or consider doing it yourself for less.

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