zlacker

Jeff Bezos is not Amazon. Amazon wouldn't be what it is if it wasn't relentlessly competitive. Workers are not risking their lives for peanuts. They're paid a competitive wage for people that have their skill set. There are lots of people that want their jobs.

All essential workers during this crisis deserve some kind of additional compensation. Wealth redistribution should happen through the government. One company can't do it all themselves. They have a responsibility to both their shareholders and their employees. It they abandon one of those responsibilities they won't be able to do the other one effectively.

>>jumpma+(OP)
"Amazon wouldn't be what it is if it wasn't relentlessly competitive."

Amazon can be just as competitive without being as profitable to its shareholders.

The hundreds of billions that Bezos has pocketed as profit are not essential for Amazon's success. That profit could easily be redirected in to the pockets of Amazon's employees and towards making a safer work environment instead, arguably with a corresponding increase in Amazon's competitive effectiveness.

>>pmoria+B1
He already is, bezos reinvested much of amazon profit back to amazon.

>>matz1+W3
How much of that reinvestment went to the warehouse and delivery workers and their safety? Considering their strike: not enough.

>>pmoria+D5
That entirely depends on how effective the strike is.

>>pmoria+B1
You think that Amazon makes hundreds of billions in profits?

>>matz1+z6
I fail to see the connection.

>>pmoria+pd
If the strike is not effective then there is no point to reinvestment into the worker demand.

>>matz1+Ee
Right. There's no point in making sure your workers are healthy or are well compensated for the risks they take slaving away to make you ever richer, when you could pay them the absolute minimum you could get away with and replace them with more if they get sick or die.

>>pmoria+kj
Exactly, thats the reality. Amazon is not charity.