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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Exactly -- my point wasn't that factories are evil (though I tend to think they incline that way). It was that, in choosing Amazon over indie places and even chains, the consumer is choosing conditions in a particularly loathsome factory for many workers instead of those of a book store for a great number, and perhaps that choice is worth talking about.
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Uh, seriously, you are comparing a print book POINT-OF-SALE retail site to a *general purpose* merchandise distribution *warehouse*?
Some might suggest that is a grape to watermelon comparison.
How about comparing the printer's distribution warehouse or perhaps a Diamond Book Distributors warehouse to Amazon's?
Or maybe the working conditions and the payscale at LAB126 to your typical indie bookstore?
Or maybe a detroit auto plant?
The jobs are completely different so why compare the two?
Otherwise you might as well compare a trash collector to a waiter and decry how unhygenic an environment the trash collector faces.
If we're to have a serious discussion we want actual comparables, no?
For a true one to one, how about Overstock.com vs Amazon? Or walmart or target? Then we might learn what the standard work environment is for that *particular* job...