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Jeff Bezos "needs to spend roughly $28 million a day just to keep from accumulating more wealth"
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That used to be the story and I had respect for him putting everything into the business, but then.... bam! He's the richest mofo and his employees can't take a decent shit?? The Amazon story is amazing and he deserves much credit, but again come on it doesn't have to be this way.
They kind of are though. I ordered a mini fridge and it showed up at my house 2 hours later. I kind of love it.
How about letting your employees take a piss break? Or treating them like human beings? Or fucking pay for the god damn medication for the people who get mangled at your god damn warehouses? Just a thought.
A nation like the US...
He'll most likely cryogenically freeze himself like Walt Disney and co.
Dude, come on.
Everyone knows that Walt Disney only froze his head, so it could be put on a robot body and be sustained by the flesh of young Cuban children.
Hording wealth is an addiction. I firmly believe that once many people get to a certain level of wealth, the pursuit of more becomes as dangerous of an addiction as gambling or alcohol.
This man could easily fix Puerto Rico, give flint Michigan clean water, house every homeless person in his state, and still have tons of money left over. The kind of money a man like him has is what 100 humans working with no expenses might be able to accumulate in 10 lifetimes. This is wrong and this kind of situation should never have been allowed to happen
This man could easily fix Puerto Rico, give flint Michigan clean water, house every homeless person in his state, and still have tons of money left over. The kind of money a man like him has is what 100 humans working with no expenses might be able to accumulate in 10 lifetimes. This is wrong and this kind of situation should never have been allowed to happen
He gets to sit on his ever growing fortune while his own workers have to piss in plastic bottles and sleep in their cars. That's capitalism in its truest and most final form.
Is he hoarding when most of the wealth is tied into ownership of a company he's actively managing and is growing?
Amazon famously reinvested its profits into its own business for eons and had a low on-paper profit margin because of it. That's a good thing. That's what has gotten the wealth creation to this point.
You absolutely should be taxing Bezos/Amazon appropriately and using it for society's benefit. But it's not a bad thing that some people like to grow businesses.
The article itself in the OP states that it's not Bezos that's to blame.
The most immoral part of Bezos to me is that he's the richest businessman and second richest person in the world since John D. Rockefeller, and yet he's done absolutely nothing with his personal wealth.
Rockefeller hated worker's rights even more than Bezos, but at least he had the decency to donate shitloads of money to causes that actually helped people in tangible ways.
Rockefeller hated worker's rights even more than Bezos, but at least he had the decency to donate shitloads of money to causes that actually helped people in tangible ways.
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You're speaking from experience ? Studies ? That's just your opinion
Get big off illegal worker conditions.
Offer cheaper prices putting local/other competitors out of business.
Get tax breaks to bring jobs to states.
Amazon becomes only place hiring.
Go back to first line.
Hell the article specifies all of this.
the only this illegal out of this list is get big off illegal workers.
The rest is all business.
EDIT business is not moral or immoral or ethical its just business.
Shitty and legal. Is the problem the companies explpiting the system or the system allowing for such exploits?
Well yah? The whole point is that his business has illegal worker conditions, thereby making his whole business immoral.
It's not legal.
Just cause Amazon has enough money to either outbid the opposer or settle doesn't mean it's not legal, I can read it myself and come to the conclusion.
The problem of course relies in the system. But just like slavery, econmic gap in Paris etc. we're all problems with a system doesn't mean slavers/bourgeoisie aren't immoral.
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illegal worker conditions? If thats proven then you have lawsuits etc I dont particularly care if a business is immoral no real business is moral per say . Have you thought it through? How are you going to do it? Stock options every person. How do you evaluate who gets what ? Are we all equal if so shouldnt the founders get more ?
These are not simple issues. Its very easy to rail against rich without thinking as opposed to work these issues out .
The problem is the companies corrupting and infecting the system with moneyhat lobbying and generalized corruption.
this i can agree with citizens united verdict is rubbish imo.
EDIt I could read more and change my mind but my current understanding of it is its basically legalized bribery..
well then fine let the lawsuits play out. If they have merit amazon will pay up/change practices. The rest is immaterial as far a business is concerned to me.
Additionally with automation imo these lawsuits wont be an issue they'll pay out and automate warehouses. so its a temporary issue imo.....
Im personally of the opinion that taxes on rich should be raised, but more importantly im also of the opinion ubi needs to become a thing soon. I am not of the opinion of railing against the rich just cause theyre rich and they dont pay you as much as you think they should.
Im personally of the opinion that taxes on rich should be raised, but more importantly im also of the opinion ubi needs to become a thing soon. I am not of the opinion of railing against the rich just cause theyre rich and they dont pay you as much as you think they should.
I see but corruption is always a systemic problem, the individual organizations offering the bribes is something you can never get rid of. You can build a system that is more resilient to bribe.
this position only makes sense if you don't think about it all
what do you think the slave trade was bro
thats conflating a human rights issue with a financial issue. But sure lets go down that road. What in your opinion is an ideal pay to an employee? In a multinational high value corporation? You havent thought it through. If we conflate such issues then we get into the argument of socialism vs capitalism . That is a whole other can of worms. Pure socialism angle not nordic socialist democracy angle.
This value from his Amazon stock right not what he has on his bank account?
Revenue numbers and profits is a better indicator what Amazon can give extra to their employers.
Revenue numbers and profits is a better indicator what Amazon can give extra to their employers.
You haven't thought it through.
Do humans have the right to go to the bathroom, to not get unrinary infections? To not die? To take breaks?