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Dear Jeff Bezos, instead of firing me, protect your workers from coronavirus

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174 points jbegley | 1 comments | 03 Apr 20 15:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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zamalek ◴[03 Apr 20 16:58 UTC] No.22771415[source]▶
I strongly sympathize with the Amazon workers. The real problem is that this isn't the first time Amazon has been in the spotlight for worker conditions (there's even a pretty shocking documentary on the subject) and nothing sensible has ever come from it. Amazon continues to exploit humans who have few other choices, and will continue to get away with it.

This whole situation is a really good example of why worker's unions must exist.

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1. 0x262d ◴[03 Apr 20 19:17 UTC] No.22773035[source]▶
I think Amazon is a good indictment of capitalism in general because by capitalism's standards, they're massively successful, wealthy, and huge. But that is a direct result of how much work they've been able to get out of their workers at any externalized cost - to workers' health, to the state in welfare benefits for workers' poverty wages, to endless shipping's environmental costs, to harming the epidemic response by staying open for nonessentials.