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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by jaredklewis on Friday July 30, 2021 @05:57PM (#28012902)
Yea, if the argument is that amazon drives wages lower because Amazon took a skilled job (forklift operator) and turned it into an unskilled job anyone can do, then I agree with that premise.

I just think it is misleading to call that wage suppression as that is not how the term is traditionally used. Operating a loom probably does take less skill than knitting fabric by hand, but that's not wage suppression; that's just creative destruction.

With that definition of wage suppression, pretty much every app, piece of software, or other innovation is suppressing wages.

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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by judge2020 on Friday July 30, 2021 @07:35PM (#28013709)
> forklift operator

I get where you're coming from (there are other logistics-related specialty jobs), but i've heard that Amazon designs their warehouses around not needing forklifts (except in very few areas0 since they're incredibly dangerous in general.

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