Many Amazon Warehouse Workers are on Food Stamps

[euphemia]

People can always improve their skills and get better jobs.

 

[Swordsmyth]

It must be amusing to the oligarchs to see that even some of the sheep that decry the dogs and the butcher defend the shearer.

 

[kahless]

People can always improve their skills and get better jobs.

Monopolies taking over business sectors with help of their government counterparts make that more unlikely every passing day.

 

[kahless]

Amazon is an arm of the powers that be, the people who designed the system to socialize their costs and privatize all the profits, more government is not the solution but they deserve criticism and any private efforts to avoid using them.

AnCaps are all too willing to defend the oligarchs' left hand as long as it wears a sock puppet that is labeled "private enterprise".

Exactly.

 

[euphemia]

Monopolies taking over business sectors with help of their government counterparts make that more unlikely every passing day.

I don't know about that. I guess they had the same opportunities I had. People can't wait until adulthood to begin being responsible. Education is the means to a better way of life. If students don't take advantage of the opportunities they have when they have them, it's really too bad.

 

[TheCount]

His company wasn't making money for years (still isn't in its core business) , just people investing in it.

They're investing based on its perceived future competitiveness, future market share, and future profit.

All of which would be jeopardized if Comrade Kahless were its CEO.

 

[kahless]

I don't know about that. I guess they had the same opportunities I had. People can't wait until adulthood to begin being responsible. Education is the means to a better way of life. If students don't take advantage of the opportunities they have when they have them, it's really too bad.

Which is all well and good unless the monopoly eliminates those opportunities or by design eliminates it to a select few.

 

[kahless]

They're investing based on its perceived future competitiveness, future market share, and future profit.

All of which would be jeopardized if Comrade Kahless were its CEO.

Amazon dominating our economic system has become a competing government within the borders of the US. Your advocacy of Amazon makes you more closer to a Communist than I who is simply calling out their immorality while promoting Capitalism in an forum that is supposed to promote individual liberty and free markets. Which obviously with each your replies to me in the last year you repeatedly oppose.

 

[VIDEODROME]

Wages reflect what you produce.......................Unless you work for government.

That doesn't seem to bear out at the top end where many executives seem ridiculously overpaid.

Even the bankruptcy negotiations for Toys R Us includes millions in bonuses to executives of a failed company. Sometimes the upper class seems to walk a fine line between investment and plunder.

 

[TheCount]

You do realize we are dealing with a unique historic monopoly entity such as Amazon, right?

Holy shit, read a history book sometime. Amazon has nowhere near the levels of government power that the robber barons did, and beyond that they have nowhere near the government influence that the current MIC has. It's not even close. You want to talk unique historic monopolies? Let's talk about United Launch Alliance. $1B per year direct government handout before charges for any launches.

As for monopolies, there is nothing, nothing that Amazon sells that you cannot get somewhere else. Often it's cheaper elsewhere as well.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Holy shit, read a history book sometime. Amazon has nowhere near the levels of government power that the robber barons did, and beyond that they have nowhere near the government influence that the current MIC has. It's not even close. You want to talk unique historic monopolies? Let's talk about United Launch Alliance. $1B per year direct government handout before charges for any launches.

As for monopolies, there is nothing, nothing that Amazon sells that you cannot get somewhere else. Often it's cheaper elsewhere as well.

This^^ People buy from Amazon for the brand and convenience. Plenty of times I've bought from ebay, etc because the item in question was cheaper.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

That doesn't seem to bear out at the top end where many executives seem ridiculously overpaid.

Even the bankruptcy negotiations for Toys R Us includes millions in bonuses to executives of a failed company. Sometimes the upper class seems to walk a fine line between investment and plunder.

"Seem" being the key word. They may well offer the value to the company they get paid for all you know. What people earn in the private sector is none of your damn business.

 

[kahless]

Holy shit, read a history book sometime. Amazon has nowhere near the levels of government power that the robber barons did, and beyond that they have nowhere near the government influence that the current MIC has. It's not even close. You want to talk unique historic monopolies? Let's talk about United Launch Alliance. $1B per year direct government handout before charges for any launches.

As for monopolies, there is nothing, nothing that Amazon sells that you cannot get somewhere else. Often it's cheaper elsewhere as well.

This is again giving cover to Amazon in the thread and oh wait there it is. I knew you would eventually go right back to MIC - the military industrial complex. No matter the subject you bring it right back to MIC. Now it is not that I disagree with allot the objections that comes up here about MIC but you have to wonder when no matter the subject is you divert the topic to off topic MIC which is irrelevant to the discussion.

 

[Danke]

"Seem" being the key word. They may well offer the value to the company they get paid for all you know. What people earn in the private sector is none of your damn business.

we have a "private sector?" news to me.

 

[kahless]

we have a "private sector?" news to me.

I wish I lived in the same world that some RPF'er's believe we actually live in.

 

[VIDEODROME]

"Seem" being the key word. They may well offer the value to the company they get paid for all you know. What people earn in the private sector is none of your damn business.

Doesn't it become the People's interest if a company is going before the courts because they're in such a mess?

 

[TheCount]

This is again giving cover to Amazon in the thread and oh wait there it is. I knew you would eventually go right back to MIC - the military industrial complex. No matter the subject you bring it right back to MIC. Now it is not that I disagree with allot the objections that comes up here about MIC but you have to wonder when no matter the subject is you divert the topic to off topic MIC which is irrelevant to the discussion.

What in the hell are you talking about? I gave two examples, one historical and one present day. Undoubtedly if I'd just mentioned the robber barons you'd dismiss that too. You're just throwing up some bullshit because you have zero argument.

This^^ People buy from Amazon for the brand and convenience. Plenty of times I've bought from ebay, etc because the item in question was cheaper.

Just today I ordered something from Amazon which I could've gotten from eBay or Alibaba for half the price. The other options were your typical $0.99 'snail mail from China' deal, and I was willing to pay the extra $5 to get the thing in two days rather than two months.

 

[kahless]

What in the hell are you talking about? I gave two examples, one historical and one present day. Undoubtedly if I'd just mentioned the robber barons you'd dismiss that too. You're just throwing up some bullshit because you have zero argument.

Just today I ordered something from Amazon which I could've gotten from eBay or Alibaba for half the price. The other options were your typical $0.99 'snail mail from China' deal, and I was willing to pay the extra $5 to get the thing in two days rather than two months.

You fail to recognize the magnitude for which there is no comparison. What I do know is you give monopolies and big government cover here when I post here to call it out.

 

[VIDEODROME]

You fail to recognize the magnitude for which there is no comparison. What I do know is you give monopolies and big government cover here when I post here to call it out.

Maybe what kahless is referring doesn't mean just raw Government influence like the Robber Barons? Is Amazon in fact so big that they don't need much from government other than to stay out of their way?

Amazon might be considered historic from that financial resources and their huge presence on the net which is a different kind of power. I'm not sure if any other company is comparable for having this much of a presence without really having a brick and mortar storefront.

 

[angelatc]

You do realize we are dealing with a unique historic monopoly entity such as Amazon, right?

No, we aren't. They aren't a monopoly by any definition of the word. They aren't unique, either.