Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
by vasilipupkin on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @01:59PM
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absurd. Nobody is forcing anyone to work for AMZN or Google or Uber. People would simply quit if these companies were actually abusing them
Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
by kmeisthax on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @02:33PM
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Yes they are forced to work. If you don't have a job you starve, that's how our economy works. That's a very soft form of force (specifically, a sin of omission), but it is still force.
Likewise, quitting your job is extremely disruptive and carries risk of bankruptcy if you can't get on to another employer in time. It's not simply a matter of "switch to the best offer available".
Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
by vasilipupkin on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @02:39PM
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I was alive before Uber, AMZN existed and nobody starved, people just worked elsewhere, so this assertion is just not true. People have to work, but they don't have to work for AMZN, they didn't before it existed. Sure, quitting is disruptive, but people are not actually forced to work for any company, come on.
Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
by lancesells on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @03:20PM
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You don't think the large companies that existed before Amazon abused those workers? Wal-Mart never did anything wrong to their workers? It's a repeating playbook.
Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
by olyjohn on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @04:07PM
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Have you seen Uber's turnover rate? Most people do quit.
Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
by jsight on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @03:25PM
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Search for "How Starbucks treats their workers" and see why large companies get attacked too. If you search for your favorite local coffee shop, you won't see such complaints.
But go to /r/starbucks and you'll sometimes hear that a lot of small shops are worse, for various reasons.
Large companies attract certain classes of criticism not by being worse, but by being more visible. Unfortunately, this actively masks some of the wrongs that they actually do.
This isn't the FTC's complaint but search "How Amazon treats their workers" and see why large companies get attacked. Typically the only way you're going to become this large is by abusing people in some sort of way. Amazon abuses their workers, their sellers, etc. Meta abuses their users. Google abuses their users. Uber abuses their drivers.
I would love to see 20 Amazons where half have a decent quality of life for workers compared to 1 Amazon where it's just awful for everyone except maybe consumers (debatable), executives, and tech workers.