Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire

Re:Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of pe... by dragonwriter on Friday June 17, 2022 @05:23PM (#31784542)

> Note also that plenty of ostensibly left-wing companies want cheap labor as well.

There are (outside of small local cooperative enterprises) approximately zero left-wing companies in the US.

The things painted as “left-wing” companies by the far right are center-right neoliberal corporate capitalist enterprises that do some mix of opposing far-right culture war efforts as a drag on corporate capitalist exploitation and making PR gestures to the left side of culture war fights while remaining locked in the economic center-right.

Yeah, in the GOP’s current view of the world, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is considered radical leftists, but, that's not reflective of reality.

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Re:Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of pe... by throwaway894345 on Friday June 17, 2022 @05:40PM (#31784725)

I think you and I have debated this before, and I think your definition for "left-wing" is pretty different from the general population (and you may think the same about my definition, all good, agree to disagree, etc). Anyway, I said "ostensibly left-wing companies" deliberately because I don't think any company actually adheres to an ideology irrespective of what their PR/marketing departments say or do, but rather they all comport themselves according to their individual profit motives.

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Re:Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of pe... by dragonwriter on Friday June 17, 2022 @05:45PM (#31784782)

> I said "ostensibly left-wing companies" deliberately because I don't think any company actually adheres to an ideology irrespective of what their PR/marketing departments say or do, but rather they all comport themselves according to their individual profit motives.

Where do you think ideologies come from? One of the most common places is some identifiable group's economic self-interest; neoliberalism is that for the owner class in capitalist society, which is why institutions controlled by that class (especially when they are controlled broadly by that class rather than by an individual member who may have personal quirks) tend to pursue it.

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Re:Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of pe... by throwaway894345 on Friday June 17, 2022 @05:47PM (#31784812)

I don't think they come from corporations, although no doubt organizations may promote popular ideologies.

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