Re:Convenience Is Destroying Us
by readflaggedcomm on Friday April 02, 2021 @01:25PM
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What's new is widespread participation in this oppression. Every buy from Amazon is another wage theft.
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But fruit picking is a much worse job and everybody participates in fruit eating.
There were protests about fruit pickers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delano_grape_strike
It's still a bad job, and now it's deeply entangled with illegal immigration. That makes it hard to make it visible.
Amazon pushes the limits of the law a bit less, because its workers aren't migrants. But because they're not migrants it's easier to focus on them.
Famous last words while clicking 'Order now' on the Amazon website.
I haven't ordered from Amazon in 2 years. It is a lot easier than I thought it was going to be, though I understand it might not be easy for everyone.
Re:Convenience Is Destroying Us
by readflaggedcomm on Friday April 02, 2021 @06:28PM
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Is this the bad reaction to my comment, you think I'm a hypocrite?
It was sarcasm but do you use Amazon? I do think that it's hypocritical for people to actually be a customer while on the other hand participate in popular culture by throwing big words like oppression around.