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Egg_Go_Boom · 4964 days ago · link ·
Back in my days in business (middle management), my continued employment depended on ever-increasing sales and ever-decreasing costs. I was directed to keep people under 28 hours/week (IIRC) to avoid them being eligible for benefits. Front line staff worked hard physically, with very little hope of advancement. Basically, I had to elevate myself by climbing on those working for me. I couldn't do it anymore, but plenty of people can and do.
Companies/corporations care only about profit. People are tools for making profit. There are, of course, exceptions, but I believe that the corporate push for ever-greater profits is crushing the working class. Oh, and corporations are people now, capable of buying much more political power in a day than I could build up in a lifetime.
Its gonna be bad for the amazon higher-ups when these people realize that they can sue (the other great american virtue) for any ailment that results from poor working conditions. Or maybe that's why amazon fires everyone every 6 months, so that they don't have the time to develop chronic conditions. I wonder how well this model would work in a proper economy where decent jobs are available, and people don't feel like they have to take whatever kind of employment is available.