bUt He cReAtEs tHe JeRbS!
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They aren't greedy! They're exercising rational self-interest!
They aren't cruel! They're acting in the best interests of shareholders!
They don't sociopathically betray the workers who helped them succeed, they curtailed redundancies to maximize workplace efficiency!
We have always been at war with Eurasia!
It's the people at the company working that make the money. So technically the people create their own jobs or smth. A company should be owned by the workers at that company and they should get to elect leading personnel. I think this sounds rad.
I couldn't have phrased that any better!
"The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!" - Big Bill Haywood, 1929
This is the problem with capitalism. The workers do all the work, but the "owning" class keeps all the rewards of all that work.
I don't agree with the size of the wealth gap between owner and regular employee, but I don't understand why people think the heads of these companies - and I'm talking the ones that started them from nothing - did no work or continue to do no work. It's pretty ludicrous to think that the low level employees at Amazon are doing "all the work." Are they doing all the grunt work? Yes. Is their job the most physically demanding? Yes. Are they underpaid? Yes. But to pretend like the owner does nothing is just so idiotic and shows a lack of understanding of what goes into running a massive organization like amazon.
There definitely needs to be reform. I don't even think taxation is the way to go, I think putting laws in place for higher wages is key.
Yes, bootlicker. Totally right... But in actual reality: What are you talking about!?
I've met and worked with C Suite, Executive, and Officer-level employees... They do as little as you think they do. Unless they're a results-focused executive trying to turn around a failing business, their impact is... very little, in fact. Yet they make 100+ times what you or I make, every single year. It's not fair, it's not logical, yet it is one thing: corruption.
There's a very high difference between the people you're listing and someone who runs a company from the ground up. There's definitely corruption, we can agree on that, and yes, too many executive positions held by MBA grads who have never done anything but be an executive.
I highly doubt that owners of large companies actually do a lot of work, even for massive organizations. The corporate web is highly complex, and it's kind of impossible for outsiders to know how everything works internally, but judging from how many management positions there are, and seeing how much free time they have judging from their media presence and them having enough time to go to space (which requires training might I add), it's hard for, at least me, to see how they do much of anything besides speaking in events, owning the means of production and occasionally using their money to expand the company.
Again, it's hard to tell with these companies being secretive and this large, and maybe the owners do a lot more work than I'm giving them credit for. But from the various stories and their media appearances, I have my doubts.
quiet shill
Come on now, that's not fair!
I, for one, think we should show our appreciation for Bezos being a titan of capitalist virtue by crowdfunding an experience he'll never forget, a deep sea excursion into the depths to view the wreckage of the storied Titanic!
Who's with me?!
Titan 2: Bezos Boogaloo
You forgot one additional picture, "we, together, allow this madness to exist".
Look at all the pathetic and deluded temporarily embarrassed millionaire you've coaxed out of their holes to publicly humiliate themselves and lick some boot like it's going out of fashion..
Not the nausea inducing content I was properad to consume before breakfast 🤮
And it's never enough
UPS pays good though.
Their pay is less bad. Not exactly good
Doesn't pay $142,667/ Minute
Depends on the position! Last contract adjustment really helps the part-timers rise above poverty wages. Has yet to be ratified but it looks promising.
It's good until you pay off the union that doesn't provide until you've been a member for a number of years
Things may have changed, but I noped out of the package handlers Union back in the 00's when I was offered a shitty job at UPS because it looked like the pay was going to be shit until I'd suffered for years, then it's be slightly less shit.
/please correct me if I'm wrong, I don't want to spread misinformation, just want to share how shit the union system can be unchecked.
Buy local when you can, if you have to order a chinese made products (most are these days) buy from Aliexpress, you save a ton of money not paying amazon markup or a 3rd party Chinese seller running business on Amazon.
I bed the creator of the meme is using Amazon frequently and doesn't give a dime about the people there.