[elfexec]

"More than 340 tech workers at Amazon used the hashtag #AMZNSpeakOut in public statements that condemn the company for not taking sufficient action on the climate crisis."

340 whole workers?

Total number of amazon employees : 750,000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)

So 749,660 employees did not protest? Shouldn't that be the real news?

[lazyasciiart]

You seem to have unintentionally conflated "tech workers at Amazon" with "all Amazon employees". It turns out that the majority of Amazon employees are not what we categorize as "tech workers", so you should be using that much smaller figure as your denominator.

[hectorlorenzo]

"'100 million people rally to implement measures to prevent climate change'. Well, I guess that 7.43 billion people are ok with climate change..."

[zeveb]

No, it'd be more like 3.4 million people protesting stuff. And yes, if 3.4 million people globally cared about something while the other 7.4966 billion didn't … I wouldn't expect to see much motion on it.

As a point of comparison, there are roughly 3.4 million Venezuelan refugees, 3.4 million worldwide deaths from waterborne illnesses, 3.4 million people in the U.S. along with epilepsy, 3.4 million people on food stamps in the U.S., 3.4 million people in the U.S. with a bachelor's degree in psychology …

[iicc]

340 whole workers risking their livelihoods.

[llcoolv]

Come on, that's a bit too dramatic. Tech people don't stay unemployed for too long.

[llcoolv]

Alright, so many downvotes and not a single reasonable critique. I was just saying that those people would very easily find new employment, so saying that they're "risking their livelihood" is far-fetched to say the least.

[kufuffin]

I think you’re being downvoted because you’re downplaying what they are potentially risking. They could be putting hundreds of thousands of dollars in their stock plans at risk. They could be risking getting blackballed. Who knows?

[elfexec]

> Alright, so many downvotes and not a single reasonable critique.

It's expected in a "brigadable" topic - anything to do with climate change, veganism, china, gender, etc. My original comment was downvoted within a second of being posted. So it couldn't have been a human reading and downvoting.