I seen it on reddit and thought to share it here.
Which means nothing, $15hr was the right number 20 years ago. By the time shithole companies like Amazon adopted $15 hr it was still an unlivable wage.
I saw a documentary on Prime, about Amazon, with ads for Prime, that says you’re mistaken.
It should’ve been $30 a year ago.
TIL (for the bajillionth time) that a fuckton of people can’t define “leftist”, also.
The fight for 15 started in 2012, 12 years ago. Inflation alone puts that above 21 bucks in post pandemic dollars, rising with inflation and rising worker productivity should get us to somewhere close to 27.
Came here for this… $15 was a decade ago.
15 was not so bad pre covid but needs to be double that now.
$15 wasn’t livable before COVID
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‘They’re more concerned about profit’: Osha, DoJ take on Amazon’s grueling working conditions
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Amazon’s focus on speed, surveillance drives higher warehouse worker injuries, study finds
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Delivery Drivers Sue Amazon For Being Forced To Pee In Bottles
Those are just sample of the hits on my “amazon working conditions” google search. I applaud any company that pays a decent wage, but not when that same company is forcing their employees to endure unsafe working conditions.
And let’s not forget that Bezos, in 2023, made $7.9 million dollars an hour by exploiting these employees. I hope that puts that $15 and hour in perspective. In thirteen minutes, Bezos made more than you will probably earn in your lifetime, subby. Forgive me if I’m less than impressed with his willingness to toss a few crumbs from his plate to the people slaving away for him.
Did Amazon at least provide the bottles to pee in? /s
I’d post a laughing emoji, but this is only funny on the most fucked up level. ☹️
I’m out here arguing for a $26/hr minimum wage.
Full time work would afford you $1000/week, pre tax.
So like $600 to $700.
This is barely livable.
Yeah $15/hr was the push in 2016, now its 25-30 at least
You can make the min wage 1000$ you’re still making min wage. Raising min wage is a red herring. We need to have good mechanisms for people to make ABOVE min wage.
we really need a maximum compensation like ben and jerries had. 10x lowest compensated worker at the company.
Honestly, I’d even be okay with 1000x, to start.
When full time wal mart takes home 30k, the Walton’s can settle for 30 mil/year instead of who the fuck knows what. Google says they make $100 mil per day. Like… I’m with you, but baby steps.
im willing to go with 100 but honestly its sorta sad to say one person is worth more than 100 of another.
Incrementalism is what got us here.
Incrementalism is the definition of 2 steps forward, 3 steps back.
Incrementalism has been the play book since the new deal. Does it look like the new deal is still in effect? Business has been chipping at it ever since it passed - and it only passed because as FDR was about to sign papers expanding the supreme court, like they were on his desk, in his hand, his opposition caved. He should’ve expanded the court anyway, but hey, different time, back then you could assume yr opposition just had a different vision forward, and still wanted American advancement. Now the opposition doesn’t consider working class people until they need votes, until then, it’s the rabble, or horde, or Al Quida (literally means “the base” in Arabic. Republicans are American Al Quida; Y’all Quida)
Incrementalism is perfectly demonstrated playing slots. You bet 100 tokens; you “win” 80 tokens on the spin. Let that perturbate sinusoidal and you’ll end up with a cash out ticket reading shit like “you won $420! Pay out $0.” “technically” slots pay out the most, but that’s due to the above example being counted as a win of 80 instead of a loss of 20.
Change happens fast and Americans are more than capable of handling change, so there’s no fearscaping what the rubes will think in Peoria. We aren’t stupid and we don’t want to be coddled. Hence the pushback to the lying media (blatant proof; "we aren’t in a recession…except for the 200million of you that are, but these 20 guys made THAT much to tip the scale; or defending Israeli atrocity or blaming platforms, Tiktok, for showing the “wrong” truth and negging it’s user base because the IDF keeps posting and humblebragging their carpet bombing of preschools…smh).
A large chunk of Trump voters (which I am not) just want respect and the be treated like they’re at the adult table and they’re so tired of mfers trying to manufacture consent, and manipulate to immunity they’re willing to burn the entire establishment down. I’ve been told this explicitly, multiple times, as I live in deep red yokelville, am annoyingly Socratic, as stubborn as Diogenes in the face of injustice and make myself potentially a target at every council meeting and town hall. And I guess I’m far enough left that Ill stand with them in that point. Without the truth, nothing can be fixed. They gave up on treating us like adults, or just humans, right about the time they killed Bobby Kennedy. Since then it’s been all Machiavelli: peacocking, manipulation, and advertising. “controlling the narrative” = a giant neon sign from orbit that says “evil shit, right here, these people. E.V.I.L.”
Your title implies that because amazon argues for a 15 dollar minimum wage, just like us leftists do (actually many of us argue for higher now but for the sake of your post, lets stick with 15), that means its a bad thing. I’m genuinely struggling to understand why you thought to post an about article directly from Amazon with your own bs title. Just because a big corporation advocates for the same thing doesn’t mean those things shouldn’t be advocated for. Amazon is also lobbying for the legalization of weed, does that mean that legalization isn’t a good thing? It’s an incredibly flawed argument and if that’s not what you’re saying I’d love to know what you’re actually trying to communicate with this post.
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It is dumb.
