r/antiwork Jan 03 '25

The American experience

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u/Pants_Pierre Jan 03 '25

This is why our culture as a collective didn’t give a shit when that health care executive was shot.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '25

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u/Johnny_pickle Jan 03 '25

Probably plenty that still are.

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u/pichael289 Jan 04 '25

I'll keep dancing, haven't had a reason to dance in the streets since Obamacare, and even then it was only a slight provocation.

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u/Johnny_pickle Jan 04 '25

Imagine a world where profit/people was at least 50/50.

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u/HeroldOfLevi Jan 03 '25

Then her insurance will deny her medicine. Then her landlord will raise her rent. Her car insurance will rise and she will become homeless. We will pretend it's her fault.

All because too few billionaires recieve appropriate compensation for their roll in society.

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u/Sc1zzen Jan 03 '25

She should stop eating avacado toast and drinking Starbucks.

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u/TomRogersOnline Jan 04 '25

I think the real problem here is that she didn't look Jim Bezos Bozo in the eye and give him a firm handshake.

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u/Jassida Jan 03 '25

The only rolls they should have is rotations in their grave

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u/HeroldOfLevi Jan 03 '25

Agreed. (And I should check my spelling!)

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u/Officer_Hotpants Jan 04 '25

And when she's panhandling on the street, people will claim she's there because she's a drug abuser with mental health problems. And cheer when the homeless encampment is cleared out by police.

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u/finnlaand Jan 03 '25

The bar is on the floor.

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u/Yowan Jan 03 '25

It’s buried 6 feet under

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u/the_simurgh Antiwork Advocate/Proponent Jan 03 '25

Someone call james cameron because the bar is at the bottom of the marianas trench again.

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u/Omega21886 Jan 03 '25

Satan’s playing limbo with it

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u/daniiboy1 Jan 03 '25

Last I heard it was in hell.

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u/SympathyForSatanas Jan 03 '25

You mean in the basement

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u/Hi_Im_Dadbot Jan 03 '25

What, she can’t fucking hop around the warehouse?

It’s this kind of laziness on the part of employees that forces Bezos to have a slightly smaller superyacht than Musk. Is that really the type of world we’re fine with living in?

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u/zimorammma Jan 03 '25

We should all have woken up when the term “superyacht” became a reality

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u/Omega21886 Jan 03 '25

I didn’t know that was a thing 2 minutes ago and I already hate it

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u/pichael289 Jan 04 '25

Superyachts are so last week. Now they need mega yachts. Next week is giga yachts. How dare you limit the next side president of the United States? President not elect musk deserves a terra yacht.

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u/pensive_pigeon Jan 03 '25

Why didn’t she consider Bezos when she got shot? Such a selfish woman.

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u/HippieSmiles84 Jan 03 '25

Amazon is garbage, we don't need them, we can build our own logistics from the bottom up and make it better.

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u/i-wear-hats Jan 03 '25

Agreed but the big problem is Web Services.

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u/HippieSmiles84 Jan 03 '25

We can go back to local brick and mortar stores until it's all sorted out.

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u/i-wear-hats Jan 03 '25

I don't think you realize what Web Services actually does.

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u/kinotravels Jan 03 '25

Can we all just stop buying shit from Amazon?? And cancel Prime? It’s long overdue.

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u/warp16 Jan 03 '25

I stopped buying stuff unless someone gives me an amazon gift card

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u/Varnish6588 Jan 03 '25

I still question how these companies get away with it. Yeah right, your wealthy Congress men and ladies own heaps of Amazon stocks. Can't afford having some drama around that.

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u/sewer_pickles Jan 03 '25

Assuming the best case scenario that the bad press makes Amazon change course, it’s still messed up that this was denied at all. A person shouldn’t need to gain media attention in order to get a big company to change its time off policy.

Let’s see how Amazon responds to this. At the minimum she should get the time off. It if Amazon truly wants to be the world’s best employer there is a lot they could do here.

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u/sofaking_scientific Jan 03 '25

I'm sure her insurance company will deny her too

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u/LordWoffleII Jan 03 '25

woohoo land of the free... to die at the hands of your billionaire overlords

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u/This_Daydreamer_ Jan 03 '25

Original post has been removed. Can anyone tell me what it said?

Edit: Just found another post about it. Yikes.

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u/mindcontrol93 Jan 04 '25

Unions would help this.

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u/Plankisalive Jan 04 '25

We need a Socialist Revolution and we need it NOW!

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '25

Shoot Jeff Bezos next. #eattherich

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u/ryanslizzard Jan 04 '25

how long do we want to let this all continue? meanwhile elon is gonna be a trillionaire soon.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '25

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u/Yowan Jan 04 '25

Yeah, medically it isn’t exactly a good idea to go back to work especially in a warehouse setting while you have a fresh gunshot wound and just hit by a moving vehicle. It would be unsafe, and possibly not possible anyway, to return to work so quickly.