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Re:Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus... by chrischen on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:47PM (#22730939)
Businesses don’t have “effort”. They have costs and revenues and if costs exceed revenues they just raise revenues (aka the price to the consumer).

If you think of a business as a machine, and the person who bought the machine as a stockholder, you would understand that a machine does not suddenly work harder because the person paid more for the machine.

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Re:Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus... by tareqak on Monday March 30, 2020 @04:08PM (#22731776)
A machine has inputs and outputs. It’s inputs have to of some level of quality to get outputs of some other correlated level of quality. A consistent supply of quality inputs is correlated with a consistent supply of quality outputs.

The trouble here seems to be maintaining a consistent supply that is sustainable.

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