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Re:The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Retur... by adventured on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:52PM (#28856787)
He's a horrible person for finally accomplishing something that nobody else has been able to: sparking a surge in compensation among unskilled labor in the US. /s

Amazon instigated the surge in all the major retailers moving toward $15 / hr as the new minimum wage for unskilled, entry labor. Amazon is setting the bar and forcing everyone else to keep up. They're likely to keep moving it higher faster than everyone else as well.

It also (very obviously) doesn't excuse all the mistakes that Amazon has made that everyone here is well acquainted with. I don't think anybody would pretend otherwise. The good goes with the bad. Amazon deserves credit for the things they get right as well as what they get wrong.

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Re:The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Retur... by rpmisms on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @04:04PM (#28856966)
I was talking about this with my wife just today. The minimum wage is ticking up, not as a result of legislation, but because there's real competition for workers now. Very positive thing.
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Re:The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Retur... by uoaei on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @04:34PM (#28857332)
Accelerationism to justify fucking poor people over because "now they're paid slightly more though definitely not a living wage" is peak HN culture war.

Amazon didn't set that bar, everyone everywhere else did. Amazon finally caught up after years and years of messing around with monopolistic tactics and is only just now doing PR damage control.

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