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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
How many people choose to buy regular chocolate... most of what we are buying is made in places with have much worse practices then Amazon.
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Amazon is notorious for harsh (but safe) work practices. Their warehouses in the US have the exact same complaints -- high pressure environment, lots of temp workers, lots of people only picked up for the holiday season.
But here's the thing. Are you
sure that the way you want to react to bad labor practices is to shrug it off? Maybe it's better to buy fair trade coffee, and spend a little more for a product that you know has fairer labor practices and a better environmental record.
And to be clear, I don't think this makes Amazon the Evil Empire. It's that next time you are outraged -- outraged, I say! -- over a book that costs $2 more at a brick & mortar bookstore than buying it online, remember that someone else is paying the difference. In this case, it's the staff at the warehouse.
That is, until they automate the whole thing. Then you don't have to care anymore.
