Re:Jeff Bezos and Amazon do not want their workers voting by...
by ardy42 on Sunday January 24, 2021 @03:10PM
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> The supposed hypocrisy is that Amazon, a company, has a different view on mail-in voting than Jeff Bezos, a person.
Jeff Bezos is the CEO of Amazon and controls the majority of its voting shares, so they're entangled enough that the actions of one can show the hypocrisy of the other.
> There's no story here, just like there's no story that many companies donate to Republicans despite having liberal founders/CEOs. Elon Musk famously donates to both parties, although one assumes he personally has a preference for one (or neither) of them.
You might as well just say that since the Civil War is so well known and understood, there's no point teaching about it in school. Not everyone actually knows the things you think are so basic to warrant no mention, and there is value in reporting the specific instances that back up a generalization.
The supposed hypocrisy is that Amazon, a company, has a different view on mail-in voting than Jeff Bezos, a person.
While true, and while likely that Bezos could possibly change Amazon's stance on this, it shouldn't be surprising that a large company relying on low wages would take any stance to stop it. Amazon may consider unions to be an existential threat.
There's no story here, just like there's no story that many companies donate to Republicans despite having liberal founders/CEOs. Elon Musk famously donates to both parties, although one assumes he personally has a preference for one (or neither) of them.