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Re:Amazon warehouse employee in Poland dies at work by Emma_Goldman on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @06:19AM (#28928944)
Amazon is certainly worse than the average company domiciled in the US, but it is quantitatively and not qualitatively different. Capitalism requires employers to extract as much work out of employees as possible, lest competition overtake them.
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Re:Amazon warehouse employee in Poland dies at work by rightbyte on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @08:42AM (#28929957)
No that is fatalistic. In the same way as Google and Facebook are leading the charge on Spyware-aaS, Amazon is leading the charge on crappy workplace conditions for warehouse and delivery workers.
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Re:Amazon warehouse employee in Poland dies at work by hdjjhhvvhga on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @06:25AM (#28928982)
But the size of Amazon amplifies the inherent problem and makes the whole thing a caricature of normal work conditions.
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Re:Amazon warehouse employee in Poland dies at work by beaconstudios on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @06:28AM (#28929004)
does Walmart have similar problems with employees being forced to work to death? I thought it was mainly because Amazon leadership are your inhumane rationalist optimiser types.
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