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Amazon minimum wage increase
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I never made any claim for or against Amazon. If I understand your post, Amazon already pays more than all states' welfare eligibility limits except Ohio's. Still, the welfare those 12% of employees are receiving is money supporting Amazon's labor requirement in Ohio.StuAzole said:
I was thinking more about home health care workers, fast food workers, delivery drivers, night watchpersons, landscapers, caretakers and a fairly large number of other low-paying occupations.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/14/when-work-isnt-enough-to-keep-you-off-welfare-and-food-stamps/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6fe62c813b8d
Break up Amazon before it destroys our economy?
So are you saying the companies are at fault for hiring low-earning employees and paying them market rates? The reason they earn low pay is because they do jobs that anyone can do. A landscape firm will pay what they need to pay to get the job done. If there's a glut of workers, the pay reflects that. If there's a shortage, pay reflects that (see current ag jobs, which pay quite a bit above minimum wage). I don't get the claim you're making.test_article said:
It is possible to be a capitalist and have conscience.Autoprax said:
Some apparently think that capitalism rules out fairness because fairness is not a "legal requirement".
Also see: Yvon Chouinard
Not so. I've said several times that I think it's smart business to pay more than market and that employee retention is way more valuable that most companies think.FecalFace said:
The business reality, however, is that how much the CEO doesn't really play a part in determining how much factory workers will take home. At $15/hour, Amazon is voluntarily well above minimum wage.
I asked before - how much more would he need to pay for it to be "fair"? Do only the lower level employees get this "fair" pay, or does everyone at the company get the same bump? And what about other companies that are already struggling to compete with Amazon and can't afford to be as generous? Won't Amazon just end up stealing their workers with their higher wages?
I don't understand your line of reasoning.StuAzole said:
We are talking about Amazon jobs, not other, better paying jobs.
$28,000 a year for a full time job, working for the biggest company in the world, with a richest CEO in the HISTORY OF THE WORLD, doesn't constitute a living wage.StuAzole said:
