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So I listened to the Daily this morning on my way into work. This was the story I listened to, and got unbelievably angry at.
This story details the work at a company called "XPO", a major competitor to Amazon, that contracts out to all of the retailers around that are interested.
This story details the death of a worker, Ms. Linda, as she is refered to in the story, and the supervisors decision to "JUST WORK AROUND THE BODY".
I'm trying to find a text story to post along with this for more detail.
I love the smell of rotting bodies and unrestrained legally empowered capitalism in the morning.
Smells like victory.
Best part is there is no way in hell you'll be closing pandora's box, cause everyone's all for change™ and justice° until it takes five days or them to get their iphone instead of two and then fuck that.
this is the purest form of capitalism and I doubt anyone who is " all for change™ and justice°" as you say is going to bow out because they are slightly inconvenienced by what will happen with said " change™ and justice°"
your worldview on people who want and will fight for change is a flawed strawman.
What people say in throwaway venues like Twitter and what they'll actually put in as daily work towards a literally greater good are two very very different things, and almost universally, the people barking the hardest and loudest are almost invariably cowards when faced with actual hardship and opposition.
I definitely observe and agree with this, but don't be so quick to dismiss people doing work. Every bit of help counts.
Louis CK put it best:
"You can have candles and horses and be a little kinder to each other, or let someone suffer immeasurably far away so you can leave a mean comment on Youtube while taking a shit"
I'm surprised this hasn't happened soo-Oh wait we had the mountains of Southeast Asian suicides of factory workers because we in the west need our shiny shit and we need it now.
Not really the Wests fault when things like these exist:
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The suffering of Asian workers is inflicted by their own governments and nationalized businesses. If the Asian countries did not step up to be the suppliers of the world someone else would. When profit is to be made, there will be a will, and there will be a way and if there isn't then humans will make one.
amazon instant delivery and same day delivery always sounded increadibly stupid and exploitative, but then all the food delivery companies came around with legions of independant contractors and revived a dead business model by pushing all the liability onto their drivers instead of themselves.
but let's be real here, if apple actually started charging $300 more under the excuse of union fees and rising health insurance costs for their employees, very little of that would actually make it towards those reasons listed. They're charging at a nearly 400% markup already; regardless of whether or not people needed things Now, apple will continue to push their workers to their limits to make as much profit as possible. the problem lies with the company, not the consumers.
People have been living off the production of slaves in some form or another since as long as there WERE people. Hearkening back to the simpler times when the people at the bottom weren't being horribly exploited is hearkening back to a time that never existed. If we want to be better, it means a making new societal developments, not reverting back to a society where people were doing the same shit.
The sentiment that the quality of life of the richest countries will need to decrease if we want to stop exploiting people is pretty on point though.
Do know that the electronic component manufacturers are very backed up now based on how many more things use more SMT/chip size components. The lead times are getting huge.
This has been going on for far longer, and if that's the case then why did we turn them to begin with?
Because up until workers are making as much money as a robots upfront cost human labor is cheaper. The smallest industrial robots cost $30,000 minimum and the Chinese workers cost is 20,000 yuan or around $3000. For a robot technician to make his paycheck he'd have to replace 10 workers then whatever his own paycheck is worth with a single automated solution to put bread on his table. This is a damn near impossible task for the technician simply because the workers are so cheap.
Compare and contrast the coastal U.S. or developed Europe, where a net profit $30,000 is considered barely livable wage slave pay.
Not even talking about apple, talking about high pressure shipping period.
I don't think we should give pregnant women lighter duty, we should give them paid leave if they work in a physically strenuous job
Got my OnePlus 6 delievered from China to Finland literally in 2 days. I expected nothing less.
At what cost though? About 20-40 bucks was it
just from my work, they're having trouble even finding materials that can survive the manufacturing process because they're pushing their etching times longer and longer to make larger and larger batches and the acids they use are just the most ridiculously corrosive blend I've ever heard of
I feel like you could just basically compare a lot of the internet and electronics to how V2 rockets were developed in Germany and you'd find a lot of disturbing similarities.
I can confirm this entirely. I was at a college that had a ton of people espousing ideals of better pay and working conditions for anyone and when I formed a student coalition to support our adjunct professor's union how many of those loud voices actually showed up? None. The only people willing to put in the time and work were just dedicated students that gave a shit about fair wages but didn't rant and rave about it on social media.
We're past the event horizon, at some point someone somewhere's gonna pull a Gavrilo Princip and chuck us back to a prehistoric age, except the cavemen have assault rifles
Ten years ago I would have said you were crazy, now us getting past the next century with our morality and dignity intact seems pretty childishly optimistic.
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