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Originally Posted by holymadness
You dismiss his opinion as utopianism, but I find your opinions far more extremist.
You do not seem to recognize the distinction between legal and ethical practices. For centuries, corporations used child labour, mandated 16-hour work days, and liberally polluted the land with toxic waste. They, too, were "acting like a normal business." Do you condone that conduct because it was not proscribed by law at the time?
You seem unwilling to hold companies to account for their externalities.
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If Amazon was not paying over time, violating labor laws, violating health and safety laws, doing a whole number of things I would be upset.
Amazon is hiring temporary workers to fill repetitive, crappy jobs during peak times. If there is not enough work they are sending people home.
Wow that is awful.
There is a time and place for government to step in, all of your examples are bad things that should be regulated. Hiring temps and when to send people home a shift are not.
I shop at Target because they treat their employees well, far better than Walmart. I shop at Amazon because I can get diapers at a great price.
I hope the US federal government raises the minimum wage, it needs to go up.
I hope that the US as a whole can find solutions to the high drop out rate from high school. If that number decreases, then the number of folks who are desperate for a job will decrease and companies like Amazon will have to hire more full time folks because there will be fewer people willing to work temp jobs.
But I am not going to blame Amazon for using the same business model every major, and most minor, companies use.
Companies should be held to a standard but individuals need to take responsibility for their own choices as well. There has to be a balance.