The fight for 15 started in 2012, 12 years ago. Inflation alone puts that above 21 bucks in post pandemic dollars, rising with inflation and rising worker productivity should get us to somewhere close to 27.
You can make the min wage 1000$ you’re still making min wage. Raising min wage is a red herring. We need to have good mechanisms for people to make ABOVE min wage.
When full time wal mart takes home 30k, the Walton’s can settle for 30 mil/year instead of who the fuck knows what. Google says they make $100 mil per day. Like… I’m with you, but baby steps.
Those are just sample of the hits on my “amazon working conditions” google search. I applaud any company that pays a decent wage, but not when that same company is forcing their employees to endure unsafe working conditions.
And let’s not forget that Bezos, in 2023, made $7.9 million dollars an hour by exploiting these employees. I hope that puts that $15 and hour in perspective. In thirteen minutes, Bezos made more than you will probably earn in your lifetime, subby. Forgive me if I’m less than impressed with his willingness to toss a few crumbs from his plate to the people slaving away for him.
Your title implies that because amazon argues for a 15 dollar minimum wage, just like us leftists do (actually many of us argue for higher now but for the sake of your post, lets stick with 15), that means its a bad thing. I’m genuinely struggling to understand why you thought to post an about article directly from Amazon with your own bs title. Just because a big corporation advocates for the same thing doesn’t mean those things shouldn’t be advocated for. Amazon is also lobbying for the legalization of weed, does that mean that legalization isn’t a good thing? It’s an incredibly flawed argument and if that’s not what you’re saying I’d love to know what you’re actually trying to communicate with this post.
Which means nothing, $15hr was the right number 20 years ago. By the time shithole companies like Amazon adopted $15 hr it was still an unlivable wage.
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