Conspicuously absent: a strategy to pay their poorest employees more so that they can then buy the products they make.
+1 Feudalism!
Just need to move more manufacturing abroad where they can make it cheap enough that the now un-employed back home can⌠oh, waitâŚ
I keep getting emails from Amazon about job opportunities, but they are in Seattle, and I know that amazon are horrible to work for.
From the Amazonians I know personally (mostly Irvine office people), they say itâs not terrible to be a developer⌠at least not much more terrible than being a developer anywhere else. The only negatives they harp on is high-stress, anonymous rating, and Amazon corpâs cheapness.
Yeah thats my problem with them.
Thatâs not unusual for businesses in the Silicon Valley halo, though.
I often wonder about the sanity of big businessâŚ
I mean seriously, what did they think the long-term outcomes of bribing right-wing politicians to impoverish your own customers was going to be exactly?
Who cares about long-term? You get to be an executions for a couple of years, youâre made for life. Long-term is someone elseâs problem.
They donât think long term, they only think âPROFIT!!â So they donât see that not having people buy your stuff can hurt you in the long run and you go out of business.
Wow, what a ringing endorsement. Iâm not really seeing how any of that actually refutes the âitâs horrible to work at Amazonâ argumentâŚ
If you want to fight for social justice, you have to start by fighting for economic and environmental justice. You canât build a chimney from the top.
You need cashâola to buy the crapâola.
Oh great. I guess now that the âbig guysâ are noticing, maybe somebody will start caring at some point⌠Maybe, but Iâm not holding my breath.
As a small-scale, self-employed person, it feels like there is no amount of fine-tuning my product, spending on marketing, and generally improving my craft that can help the fact that the vast majority of people who already do love my work and want to buy it simply cannot afford it, however cheap I try to make it. When youâre not even in competition with other sellers/products but with basic rent and groceries, you are living in an barely-sustainable economy.
Well thats the core thing really, whilst itâs kinda understandable in a sociopathic way for the previous 5-35+ years, itâs the current crop that confuse meâŚ
Theyâre literally killing off the very last of their consumer base, at detriment to everyone. Yet they donât seem to care even about their own profits theyâre killing even in the short term, let alone future generationsâŚ
I think thatâs a good thing. Classism is a lot of primitive BS. And the old industrial age production/consumption model is obsolete.
Long live your economy!
Donât worry! Starbucks has decided that it needs to form a charity dedicated to small businesses.
This will save jobs somehow.
The Starbucks-OFN literature also ignores the main reason small businesses have trouble getting credit: most of them fail, and as such are viewed as too risky by many banks in the post-bubble credit crunch. In Starbucksâs ideological universe, these risky investments shouldnât be bet on by already-wealthy financiers, their traditional lenders; they are a charitable project, to be crowd-sourced for donated funds, because there is something inherently wholesome about the small onesâand they will âcreate jobs.â This is a startling conception of for-profit businesses as humanitarian enterprises.
I take it every American in this thread is a registered Democrat intent on voting for Sanders in the primaries.
I vividly recall hearing Sean Hannity on his radio show back around 2004 explaining to one of his listeners that tax cuts for the rich were better for the economy because they would use that extra wealth to buy another home or yacht or car, which would in turn pay the wages of home-builders and auto-plant workers, etc.
My immediate thought was âuhhh. . . wouldnât it be even better to give the (much larger) middle class a tax cut, so they can afford to buy their first home, and a new car instead of a used one?â
Anyone promoting trickle-down is a fuckwit or an arsehole.
