Bernie Beats Bezos

Off Topic Politics & World Issues
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Lol, you started the thread. You’re telling me you didn’t research one iota before posting? SHOCKED, I tell you.

pfury posted this already - Amazon pays quite well relative to market standards for all levels.

I’m pretty sure you have permanently forfeited any right to complain about this after spending dozens of posts arguing that a study performed in hamsters was performed in humans.

As @Chris_Colucci asked the other day, have you looked into the stuff Basement Gainz posted for you about working from home, or will you just spend your effort posting here about how those of us who currently work for a living need to pay for things for you?

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This took literally 10 seconds to find.

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There’s another obvious point: if working for Amazon is so shitty, people are more than welcome to find another job, and if they feel their skills are worth more than Amazon pays, they should go ahead & find a job that pays them what they’re worth.

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Of course it is. If they don’t like poverty wages they should demonstrate that by finding a new job or gaining job skills.

Because the workers hadn’t cared enough to speak out before. Duh?

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I’m sorry I can’t perpetrate a massive and running joke like your hamster bit. You’re right up there with Andy Kaufman. Him with “I’m from Hollywood” and you with the hamster study.

I get it now! You’re pulling off one big Latka Gravas stunt with your commie bullshit aren’t you?!?

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They aren’t starvation wages, fuck off.

Lolz, You’re the moron that argued against a link for days that you posted remember? I deleted a post because talking to you is pointless because you’re fucking dumb.

You’d have figured that out if you weren’t illiterate.

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Dude has zero knowledge of how a business operates and can only speak in talking point.

What a pointless thread and a worthless poster.

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Common sense says otherwise.

From what I remember he made a statement. Here is the average salary of a warehouse worker and the average salary of what Amazon pays.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/warehouse-worker-salary-SRCH_KO0,16.htm

https://www.glassdoor.com/Hourly-Pay/Amazon-Warehouse-Worker-Hourly-Pay-E6036_D_KO7,23.htm

a Warehouse Worker at Amazon can expect to make an average total pay of $27,300 .

So much better, right?

Has already been answered, a long time ago.

And since you’re doing your best at dodging the main question, I’ll ask again. Is it right for some Amazon workers to be subsidized by the taxpayer?

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It says that SOME workers may lose money. The question is what happens with the majority of workers? Is this a net loss?

And furthermore is it justification for some of the workers be subsidized by the taxpayer?

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And here is the main point. Do you think it’s okay for the taxpayer to subsidize the richest man in the world’s workers because he is too greedy to pay them a living wage?

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No it is not justification for the American taxpayer to subsidize Bezos’s workers.

Maybe because they were afraid to lose their job. Duh.

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You asked about justification of paying those wages, not for the American taxpayer to subsidize them. Those are vastly different things.

Probably. Not sure why that matters. Tons of people don’t ask for raises for that reason.

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I don’t think anyone should have to subsidize anyone else.

What is a living wage? Can you explain it? How can an employer be responsible for it being earned by his employees?

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So is that why they must be subsidized by the taxpayer?

And you call me dumb.

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So you are okay with the taxpayer subsidizing Amazon workers?

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Because you are. Over the years of you posting you have failed to make any sense to actually make what one would call a good point. You speak in buzzwords and can’t fully flush out any of your socialist ramblings. You’re what is colloquially called an “useful idiot”. Except around here you’re not really useful … just an idiot … you can’t engage in any reasonable sustained rational dialogue just like your moronic hero Bernie

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Of course. I’m in favor of the existent of entitlement programs.

Are you suggesting we stop subsidizing Amazon employees? The majority that saw a pay bump from this probably didn’t move out of govt assistance range

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You’re a fucking idiot.

Yes, by 15 posters pointing out you can’t read.

If Bezo’s made $0 everyone at Amazon could make an extra $2.84. Not an hour. In total/year.

They don’t have to be subsidized by taxpayers. We offer government/taxpayer paid for benefits for all kinds of reasons. Some good some bad. Like, we don’t have to subsidize your worthless existence, but we do because American’s, generally, don’t want to see people curl up and die in a gutter because they’re useless.

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He doesn’t know what he’s suggesting because he has no clue what he’s talking about and has never thought a single one of his talking points through to it’s conclusion.

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Stupidity.

Very few people die from starvation a year. So few, the CDC doesn’t even capture the statistic. OBESITY is a much more pressing issue particularly for the poorest Americans.

Pro tip, if you want people to take you seriously make an argument based in reality. For example, you could have said “Are you okay with the richest man in the world paying his workers such a low salary that they can’t afford more nutritious foods?”

Response "Gee, it’d be nice if everyone could afford organic Kale for $15 an ounce. What are the economic ramifications of raising wages for his lowest paid workers? How will Amazon attack compensation compression? How much will their benefits cost increase because of higher wages? Most importantly to me, how will increased wages affect their sales prices? More importantly to the economy in the macro, how will other companies using similar labor react and what will that do to prices and purchasing power?

That’s how these conversations should/could go if you didn’t word vomit your worthless lefty talking points.

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