| > Working for an employer has nothing to do with the extravagantly wealthy. You're very right about this, it was wrong of me to describe the purpose of the operation as being that of making someone rich. The purpose is to maximise profits for the employer – which can lead to extreme wealth or poverty, depending on your success. Besides, in order to appreciate how shit a situation is for someone it is irrelevant to know whether someone else is profiting from it. So thanks for pointing that out. > Working a job tends to make people better off [...] It's strictly better for the homeless to have one more job opportunity, than one fewer. I think this is wishful thinking. The article actually points out that this is not true: getting this job actually made the situation worse for a lot of them. > but are you prepared to provide them yourself? As a pauper myself, I am not. I don't have the resources to do so. > to criticize those who do something positive As I tried to show before, good intentions was not what motivated Amazon to offer jobs to these people. Also, leaving someone worse off than before is not what I would call a positive outcome. So this cannot be my position. > By demonizing companies that offer jobs to poor people or the homeless, I definitely did not mean to demonise Amazon. I pointed out in my last comment that this was a feature of our world, not a feature of a particular company. That's the saddest thing of this whole story: Amazon acted completely rationally, and it's easy to see how it almost had no choice but to use up these homeless people and then throw them away. Not because it's evil, but because that's what's required of it as a company. If Amazon stops churning out profits, it won't be a company for much longer. > you're committing the fallacy called the Copenhagen Interpreation of Ethics. Nitpick: what you call the Copenhagen Interpreation of Ethics is not a fallacy, there's no logic involved here since it relates to people's moral values. It's a phenomenon at best. But once again, the point was not to say that Amazon is evil; the point is to say this world is broken. |