Bye, Amazon - Hackdot

Re:Bye, Amazon by BurningFrog on Monday May 04, 2020 @02:22PM (#23071463)

> This is maybe a radical argument, but I make it in good faith; if your business can only exist by paying workers at or below poverty wages, and/or enacting dehumanizing controls, it probably shouldn't exist.

The problem is that once you close the business and fire the underpaid employees, they don't disappear. Now they're unemployed and make $0/hour.

This blind spot fascinates me. The best explanation I've seen is "The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics". It says that "when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it".

So in this scenario, once you've fired your employees, you are no longer connected to them, and their further destiny is not your fault.

I suspect this is a deep part of our moral instincts, and we have to be aware of it to get to a more rational approach.

https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...

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Re:Bye, Amazon by kanwisher on Monday May 04, 2020 @02:56PM (#23071868)

Thanks that blog post was really opened my mind on the topic

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Re:Bye, Amazon by raihansaputra on Monday May 04, 2020 @10:03PM (#23075594)

Thanks for the link. I have some thoughts after reading it, mainly entangling with scale of the solutions, optics, and higher-order effects, but I think it's still an incomplete thought. It does drive people crazy to think about the things we can do for people who need help, the optics of how to help and how much can we help. Do you have any more books/articles related to this?

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Re:Bye, Amazon by BurningFrog on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @11:19AM (#23080933)

I don't have any more material I've vetted.

If you google "The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics", lots of things come up though. Happy hunting!

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