#capitalist exploitation

[shutinthenutouse]

[butyoutoldmeiwasfunny]

[raqualswonderfunblog]

[feminist-space]

"Amazon’s warehouses are especially dangerous for workers during the company’s annual Prime Day event, as well as the holiday season, according to an investigation by the US Senate.

Prime Day, held on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, is “a major cause of injuries for the warehouse workers who make it possible,” said a report released Monday by Sen. Bernie Sanders, who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. The report noted “the extremely unsafe conditions in Amazon warehouses” during the two peak periods and called on the company to do more to protect warehouse workers.

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The data shows that during Prime Day 2019 the rate of “recordable” injuries — those Amazon is required to disclose to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration — exceeded 10 per 100 workers, more than double the average in the US warehousing and storage industry.

[And] Amazon’s total injury rate, which includes injuries the company does not have to report to OSHA, was just under 45 per 100 workers, the report said.

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Amazon raked in $12.7 billion in sales on July 11 and 12 last year, its Prime Day 2023 event, and said July 11 was the single biggest sales day in the company’s history. For the first three months of 2024, the e-commerce giant reported a profit of $10.4 billion."

Read the full piece here:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/17/tech/amazon-warehouses-prime-day-injuries-senate/index.html

Amazon Prime Day ‘major cause of injuries’ for workers, Senate finds | CNN Business

Amazon’s warehouses are especially dangerous for workers during the company’s annual Prime Day event, as well as the holiday season, accordi

[thoughtportal]

A Letter to American Workingmen, from the Socialist Soviet Republic of Russia - V. I. Lenin

[vividdreamer]

My (somewhat) controversial takes about employment in today's world:

1. Requiring a visa sponsorship is evil, scammy, destroys people's lives, keeps immigrants hopeless, anxious, and extremely obedient to authority... and all the justifications for it are utter bullshit. This system is only designed to make it nearly impossible to obtain legal status, creating a high risk for many workers ALREADY WITHIN THE STATE to become undocumented if they switch jobs, are laid off, or fired for stupid reasons (like "poor time management" and it's someone who had a sickness or injury), because it could take YEARS to find another sponsor. The incentive here for businesses? Undocumented workers can be exploited and abused to no limits.

2. Remote or hybrid work is a win for people who either can't commute to their work or need to save the costs of commuting anyway. But it's not the solution for a healthy work-life balance. Working 8 hours in your home is not a life.

3. The work days in a week need to be reduced YESTERDAY because how are millions of people supposed to be happy and healthy when they are legally unburdened by work for just TWO DAYS.

[that-punk-adam]

Maybe it’s because I’m job hunting again, maybe it’s because I just got offered an unlivable/poverty wage, or maybe because it’s 2025 and I’ve watched the price of every single item a consumer could ever purchase absolutely sky rocket over my short life, but I am just so livid.

Rent is high. Trying to find housing that’s not insanely priced is impossible. Having the bare basic bills are expensive bc they’re high. The US basically requiring you to have a license and invest in a vehicle (+gas +insurance +maintenance) because “public servants” refuse to invest into the public by giving them dirt cheap (or free) wide spread, on time, clean and safe public transit that pays people real living wages is horrific. Credit is stupid as fuck and so are background checks.

Life in the USA is set up so that you have to spend money on every single resource that would probably otherwise be available to you if we lived in human and community centric designed cities. Everything from the public to the private has to be bought out and sold back to you in one way or another- and you’ll most likely fall for it bc others around you are falling for it too. It’s not even their fault.

I think people are just now ready for a change. I don’t think that they’re ready for such foreign and exotic concepts like living without money and continuing (or starting) education and projects in things that will help yourself/humanity live better and healthier lives along with nature, but they are ready for a change. What I think Americans are ready for is a change to happen in the system that wouldn’t/won’t move them from the comfort of what position they have in current day society. The only issue is that demanding and seeing change demands that you do, act, and say things that you wouldn’t normally. That, or that they don’t know how to start because there is no pre installed system existing for them to jump into. I don’t blame them, jumping into something when you weren’t raised to do so is intimidating.

We have to make a new way. We have to break rules, because we know that they’re unfair and in the favors of the people with all the resources. We have to come together and say “XYZ is bs and we’re not going to do this anymore”. It has to start local. It has to start small. It has to come from the materials and minds of the community members that actually give a shit. It has to be shared and expressed to others that haven’t even thought about getting together to end the madness in some way.

The only way that we’re ever going to see change at this rate is from ourselves. No more sitting on our asses and begging to higher ups for things we all know we aren’t going to get. Abusers cannot be rehabilitated. Take control of your life and see that these people have no control over yours. See the damage they are doing to the people and world around you and take action now.

[theleftycanadianradical]

There's a lie we are told about capitalism, it's spelled, "meritocracy". Hard work, more productive work is seldom rewarded.