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Re:Bye, Amazon by schnischna on Monday May 04, 2020 @05:46AM (#23066127)
What is so bad about treating somebody as someone who can pick and pack your parcels? It's just a job?

And what does it have to do with Capitalism. You think under Socialism they would care about your individuality? No they wouldn't - Socialism is a Collectivist ideology, after all.

The way to strengthen workers is to increase demand for their work, or find ways to make their (limited) skills more useful, or give them new skills. Those are all compatible with Capitalism.

Re:Bye, Amazon by awild on Monday May 04, 2020 @06:21AM (#23066358)
Because the way these people are treated relies entirely on the fact that their social status and education is so bad that they cannot effectively put demands on their working conditions, it's not like if they quit there is magically a different job on offer they can get to; none of them are doing it out of authentic volition. You're also completely disregarding the fact that people working in amazon warehouses are tracked the entire time, put under a lot of unnecessary stress and denied basic needs.
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Re:Bye, Amazon by ludocode on Monday May 04, 2020 @07:56AM (#23066905)
There are 149 comments so far in this thread. Absolutely zero of them have suggested socialism.

Workers' rights are not socialism. Unions are not socialism. Minimum wage is not socialism.

Re:Bye, Amazon by schnischna on Monday May 04, 2020 @11:09AM (#23068951)
All those things are partially socialism. Simply instating minimum wage laws doesn't make a country fully socialist, but it is a puzzle piece. It means the wage is not set by the market anymore, but by a committee.