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Bear in mind this man is toying with the idea of running for president in 2028, and he would treat USA citizens the way he’s been treating his Amazon employees. DO NOT VOTE FOR THIS MAN.
Unfortunately, the people that need to hear this aren’t here.
Sure, it could.
… and Bezos could double the pay of thousands of his employees for life and still make more than all of them combined.
But he won’t
Bezos hasn’t been the CEO of Amazon in half a fucking decade.
He’s still the executive chairman, though, which can be a more powerful position than CEO, depending on the corporate structure of specific companies.
Odds are pretty damn good that Amazon is one of those companies.
We already had one income families, and then capitalism stole it from us.
Now that women are part of the workforce, we need a 20 hour minimum workweek (with the same weekly minimum wage) to restore the workers rights we had 100 years ago.
Not quite 100 years, depending on where you are talking about.
In the USA the 40 hour work week became federal law in 1938. In the Netherlands it wasn’t until the mid-1970s when it became normal.
Even if it did, Bezos would lobby against the laws needed to establish it.
Nationalize Amazon, Walmart and these other giant ‘too big to fail’ corporations. Then use those profits to fund UBI. If America wants to be a capitalist country, let’s just make it one that actually works for all of the citizens.
we’re not capitalist, we’re corporatists. which is what Mussolini thought fascism should be called, as he saw fascism as the merging of corporations and the state.
Yes, but think what they can do in 7 days weeks with 3 income households.
Anyone who believes Bezos clearly doesn’t understand how capitalism works. AI will allow rich people who already own the companies to increase productivity with fewer employees. Meaning, they will gain more money and have less reason to spend it. Without a drastically higher wealth tax which funds social programs, how are the working (read: redundant) class going to GET access to money? With what jobs?
Let me ask you this: back in more chauvinistic times, a family was expected to subsist entirely on a single salary: the husband’s. Since women’s lib doubled the workforce, have families become more or less able to afford necessities like housing? The economy doesn’t adjust to make things easier for people. If the average household income doubles, households don’t become more able to afford things. Prices just go up.
The people who already possess resources like property aren’t gonna suddenly stop asking have-not newcomers for as much money as they can squeeze out of them. There’s absolutely no aspect of capitalism that will ever lead to that outcome.
So if rich people who own businesses can make those businesses function with fewer employees, then they’re not gonna just say “hey guys, I’m gonna pay you the same wages for only working 3 days, doubling my workforce and the amount I have to pay it”. There’s no reason for them to do so. None. Poor people will, instead, go jobless and be allowed to slowly die of any of many poverty-related causes.
Rich people only tolerate poor people because they need so many of us to do things for them. That’s about to change.
“One income family” makes sense when he thinks of everyone working at Amazon as family.
At best it’s going to mean having two jobs
man who destabilized small businesses around the world suddenly interested in helping working class
Please make his head explode.
Disclaimer: peacefully hope for his already red head to become even more redder. Maybe some more pronounced veins. Heck, if one of them popped that’d be fine by me, too.
This is Lemmy. You can say you hope a suicide drone blows up in his face on camera and we get to watch his head turn into pink mist.
🙏 Dear Luigi,…
Just a couple more tricks, then we’re on our island babe.
…for just 5 trillion more dollars, we can develop a surgery to make jeff’s eyes be the same size.
An extra .002 Bitcoin can give Jeff a name that isn’t close to Jeffrey.
Edit: for a fun game, try finding real pictures of his eyes from 10+ years ago.
He used to look like a singular spectacled testicle with perpetual pink eye.
It could already be like this……
Three-day work week and one-income family… for the Bezos family, anyway.
You’re giving him credit for 3 more days per week than he works
At critical social mass, humans have the ability to create their own orbit.
As if chucks of space dirt, the gravitationaly weak become mass for the masshole.
Classlisly gasly, the husks of once individuals become encapsulated not by strength or wisdom, but through social influence
For him and the other CEOs.
