A lot of people don't have other options so they take whatever they can get in order to survive. Why don't victims of domestic abuse leave immediately but stay for years?
> A lot of people don't have other options so they take whatever they can get in order to survive. Why don't victims of domestic abuse leave immediately but stay for years?
If Amazon is offering the very best jobs available to those workers, and Amazon actually complies with all laws and regulations, then I fail to see how is Amazon responsible for the worker's problems. It seems to me that the problem lies elsewhere, like how a regional economy managed to get so depressed to the point that no alternative job is available.
If the only job that's availanle to you is working in a sweatshop, does shutting the sweatshop down fixes anything?
What is legal is not equal to what is moral. If you force Amazon to pay some decent wages all across the country they would have to comply, and, as the result won't be able to shutdown the facilities in the depressed areas. Because they need the facilities to run their business, duh.
When Kanye West publicly wondered if slaves in the United States made a "choice" to stay in slavery for hundreds of years, he was rightly mocked for being a moron.
It's pretty depressing to see the same lack of empathy and critical thinking on hn.
Maybe it would be good to try to understand the reasons behind this. You may not agree but you may learn that the advice "if they don't like it they can just go somewhere else" is not useful.
Wow. Domestic abuse survivors stay because they don’t have any other options?
No.
Abusers create an environment of fear where abused believe they have no choices. They separate people from their friends so they think no one cares about them. They convince their victim that no one else will want them.
They create an artificial sense that there is no way out. It’s absolutely not the case that abused people are abused because they have no other option.
Promoting the idea these people have no choices plays right into the abusers plans.
If Amazon is offering the very best jobs available to those workers, and Amazon actually complies with all laws and regulations, then I fail to see how is Amazon responsible for the worker's problems. It seems to me that the problem lies elsewhere, like how a regional economy managed to get so depressed to the point that no alternative job is available.
If the only job that's availanle to you is working in a sweatshop, does shutting the sweatshop down fixes anything?