Re:'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter
by abraae on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @02:21PM
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Never go full Godwin
Re:'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter
by nemo44x on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @12:43PM
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Really? Did the Nazis give their prisoners a day out of the camp and 50 Deutschmark to treat themselves with?
I don’t think it’s fair to compare this to genocide camps.
Re:'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter
by elmomle on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @12:45PM
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"Inspired by". And yeah, the conditions are far less extreme, but the dynamics of using prisoner's dilemma to reinforce order in the warehouse is deeply cruel, psychologically. Please don't argue that.
Re:'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter
by nemo44x on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @12:52PM
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It’s giving people the option to do something else for awhile and get a small bonus on top. I had numerous jobs when I was young that had similar incentive structures if you wanted it. I doubt my managers were picking it up from Goebbles.
(edit: It was wrong of me to evoke Nazism due to its emotional connotations. I was reminded of the psychological systems of coercion that have been used all through history to efficiently keep oppressed people in line--which Amazon's actions reek of--but could have more effectively expressed my thoughts by saying "that sounds like a psychologically abusive system", or something of the sort.