[elkali]

You cannot compare work environment at Amazon to that of unorganized sector in India where small organizations or agriculture land-owners in villages and small towns exploit employees. Being a modern technology company, Amazon should be held to better standards. If there is not enough awareness and pushback against Amazon or Apple, you can't expect anything to change in unorganized sector and small-town practices.

[hawkice]

Wait a second... Why? I guess I don't get the double standard. You say the double standard is necessary for conditions to improve but can we discuss that a bit, because it isn't obviously the case. If it is an important human rights issue, I'm not sure anyone should get a pass. And if it is just, you think Amazon should be the best bad job in town, I don't see why they need to.

[elkali]

No one is getting a pass. But the methods to tackle workers exploitation at Amazon or a big corporation is very different than tackling the abuse of daily wage workers in India that the OP of the comment talks about. In the former case, corporations and users of their products are solely responsible for the employment conditions and can be tackled by raising your voice. But in the latter case, the source of exploitation is decentralized. The sector is unorganized and it is very difficult to implement the law strictly, even if there is are strong laws to prevent such. So justifying the conditions of the employees in the former case by comparing it to that of latter doesn't make sense.