Re:Amazon warehouse employee in Poland dies at work
by benreesman on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @06:38AM
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Hiring the kind of people who hang out here to deploy heavy math and legal expertise to squeeze every last drop out of the vulnerable is exactly what Dickens was barking about.
Rich people have gotten a lot of mileage out of convincing everyone that they’re a temporarily impoverished millionaire. The body politic is starting to get wise to this hustle (again) and the last bastion of dumbass Ayn Rand “socialism for me, but not for thee” tripe seems to be the temporarily impoverished tech billionaires on HN.
What was worse about that poorly-lit box perfumed by long-chain polymers where you have to hold it until your assigned bathroom break and you’re timed down to the minute on repetitive, physically stressful tasks?
The fucking WiFi?
>the infamous Victorian workhouse, an institution that the editor of the medical journal the Lancet claimed could kill 145,000 people every year
I'm pretty sure the workhouse was significantly worse than being employed at Amazon.
>gave you lodging for your slavery-like labor that you were basically born into.
this was in Poland, a country that being in Europe I suppose has a functioning welfare system. The workhouse was in effect the Victorian welfare system.
conditions in Amazon's warehouses are bad enough that hyperbole does not help in the fight against it.