Re:Amazon's German Workers Strike
by adharmad on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @12:30AM
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And such conditions are created by coercive and socialist governments, not companies like Amazon.
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That's where you're wrong. There's one thing that amazon and socialist governments have in common.
They don't give a st about the people.
The government doesn't need to be socialist either it can be a perfectly democratic government that doesn't do anything for its citizens interest and the result would be the same.
Agree with you - they don't give a st about people. But a major difference is that with Amazon (or any company) you have a choice - don't shop with them, don't work for them, convince others to do the same, document their bad-behavior etc.
With a government, there is no alternative choice. And typically socialist governments tend to swing towards totalitarianism as well, depriving their citizens of many other rights and freedoms.