[samcday]

I can only see it like this.

Amazon share price and business activity is surging as a direct result of Covid-19. They need to hire 100,000+ workers to meet the demand. However, the same thing they are profiting from (Covid-19) should also increase many of their operating expenses. Things like healthcare, paid sick leave adequate for the situation (so at least 4 weeks for proper quarantine), good PPE, in-depth infection combat strategies, and so on.

The problem is those operating expenses are only obvious if you have ethics/morality/whatever that concludes individual human life is more valuable than money. So if you're a big corporation that has been designed to enrich shareholders and the space company fantasies of your ego-maniacal CEO, you fight as hard as possible against taking on those operating expenses.

[hedora]

> Things like healthcare, paid sick leave adequate for the situation (so at least 4 weeks for proper quarantine), good PPE, in-depth infection combat strategies, and so on.

They are already doing all the things you suggested:

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employee-benefits-201...

https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/amazons-actions-to...

[Nasrudith]

That makes no sense on several levels. You /want/ growth in delivery to minimize general exposure. PPE is dependent upon supplies not held nor generally available. Assuming that because demand grows they must be making more money and therefore is a nonsequitor assumption of guilt.

[matz1]

They do have moral, it might not be the same as yours, they moral could be to make money. Moral is subjective.

[cmendel]

Businesses are intrinsically amoral. While humans may have different moral goods, companies only have to make money and, as such, need not concern themselves with petty human morality.

[matz1]

Business are made of group of people, people have moral. Business morality is based on its people. Making money itself is a moral.