Pushing Bezos to be a Trumpster!
Nah.... It's popular /populism to go after the richest billionaires . Trump hates bezos and especially his Wa Post
Pay living wages. Stop living of subsidies.
What incentive does a company have to pay a living wage if the country will subsidize it? Companies are incentivized to pay more when the free market works and people refuse to work for peanuts. For this to happen they need competition and choice.
Agree, that's why we create laws and regulations to avoid them externalizing costs. Same as when you make it illegal for them to dump trash in a river. Companies have incentives to externalize costs and society through laws makes sure that they are internalized (company then can decide to pass it to customers if they want, but not too tax payers).
Fuck Bezos and his cancerous company. ๐
jelly?
No, disgusted. ๐
These people would simply be on 100% welfare rather than 15% welfare if they didn't have these jobs?
They would be 0% on welfare of Amazon was paying a living wage.
... sigh. When you work in tech you really should understand that automation isnโt a matter of skill, it is only a matter of financial resources. If it is more cost effective for Amazon to automate, they will automate. Forcing Amazon to pay more today, means they have more reason to automate. Either we outlaw automation (which would be exceptionally detrimental to society), or we find a different solution. Amazon (all corps) should pay more tax and we should all get a basic income that meets a livable wage. My personal preference is a form of basic income for any registered full time student (with no restrictions on registration for classes).
Missed an opportunity to call it the BOZOS act
rofl so basically the gov could pass any future amount of new spending and auto pay for it with corporate tax? Socialists are such fucking morons. This bill should be named 'communism in America act' because basically gov owns corporations at this point.
Hopefully Bernie's law gets passed. Companies absolutely can afford to pay a living wage, so long as the competition has to pay a living wage too.
I'm for this. People were complaining about Walmart years, maybe even over a decade now. Amazon new poster child. And before people say it'll force automation, I'm okay with that too. Bullshit jobs shouldn't be kept around.
What is the accusation here? Does Amazon not pay the minimum wage? Is minimum wage not living wage? If not, why not make it so?
Exactly, these roundabout plans just waste money on overhead and process. If you want people to be paid a living wage, raise the mininum wage to whatever that is
Amazon pays above minimum wage
Likely to hurt poor people...
You're talking about Bezos, right?
No, if it passes jeff will hire wealthier people in the short term and automate jobs in the long term.