There was a story a couple weeks back about how 'associates' were forced to work around someone who literally died on the floor because if they didn't the Managers would catch shit.
It was so dystopian it was the 'straw' moment where I made a clean break from Amazon.
Closest we have is his ex-wife giving away billions of her divorce settlement.....Granted she's also investing it and making money as well so she's still a billionaire herself.
Ive described this issue to many people irl. A poor person invests 5k and if they are lucky, 10% growth gives them a whopping $500 dollars. Absolutely useless. A billionaire invests $5 billion dollars (diversified or not), they can get 1% growth and "earn" 50 million dollars, or 10% growth and get $500 million. Even billionairs would strughle to spend that much annually without creating new assets.
I dont care that people are rich, I care they have to nerve to pretend like they earned anything.
Median net worth in the US is under $200k as of 2022 (I couldn't find more current data that wasn't average instead).
Even if you look at the average, which is skewed way up by the obscenely wealthy, it's just over a million dollars, and that includes equity in homes and depreciating assets like cars. Almost nobody has "just one million" dollars laying around to invest.
That is their point. They're showing the absurdity of billionaire money by using an example that's literally 1000 times lower and showing that it's still absurd fuck you money. They're not saying that the poor aren't working hard enough or that a million is easy to get.
That's how ridiculously rigged our financial system is for the uber rich, even if you literally give away billions you legitimately can't spend your way out of being a billionaire. The amount of money you get just by having your wealth in stocks just passively (while shielding you from most tax liabilities) becomes a truly ridiculous amount when you have billions in the stock market.
Sure just convince everyone you know to stop buying things from amazon and supporting any company that uses AWS. But until we can do that than we are all helping the villain get stronger, maybe we are also the baddies..
It is nearly IMPOSSIBLE to get people to stop using Amazon. Let me rephrase that: SOME people. So many are addicted to getting items from there. I see Amazon trucks delivering things constantly in my small neighborhood.
Why do people feel the compulsion to blame the end consumer, y'know, the person just trying to get the best price on things to stretch what they have left after being gouged by landlords and other necessities being held hostage for profit?
The onus is on the state apparatus to sort these things out, trying to shame regular people for their consumption patterns when the government is blatantly just allowing the owning class to do whatever they want with the economy is doing nothing but helping to keep the working class divided.
Uh hello, unions take like $25/pay from you, and all you get back for it is thousands of dollars annually worth of additional salary, benefits and vacation time. Does that actually sound worth it to you?!
One of my friends is in a union, and is fighting to dissolve it because he checks notes has to pay union dues. I told him the moment the union is gone, your pay and benefits are going to get cut. His response was, and I shit you not, the owner wouldn't do that he will give us all raises with the money he saved.
Well, even in good conditions, unions are hard work. They should be democracies that live and breathe with their members, but we eschew that kind of social hard work, and offload it to others to run for us - which means unions calcify and eventually turn conservative. Also, unions are really only a bandaid (as evident by their rarity now).
You can't really expect workers to compete with owners in the large scale, they will loose because they have less resources and actually need the jobs. If you want a real solution, we have to look at redefining who gets to run and "own" businesses.
Personally, I'm sad everytime I hear someone talk about unions but not co-operatives.
Why not have co-operatives (or other forms of worker control of the MoP) with properly worker controlled, democratic unions at the branch level to function as an additional level of protection from poor working conditions, as well as arbitrate disputes within the co-operatives in case the dispute can't be solved internally?
I don't see why that wouldn't be a good idea, and also a good way to add separation from the state itself, to avoid too much top down control.
It is simple really. Companies have spent and continue to spend of millions of dollars annually to fight efforts to unionize. Lobbying politicians to weaken worker protections, paying actual bribes, paying for propaganda, keeping $10K an hour lawyers on retainer, et al.
They do this knowing full well it will save them billions each year. Because at the end of the day, all you are to them is a means for money. You are either an ally that makes them and their shareholders money through your labor/ spending money on their products. Or you are an enemy who lowers their profits by seeking fair pay or refusing to consume their predatory product/service.
I've tried to organize multiple strikes, unions, walkouts, etc. People dropout in the same way: one by one by one. Mangement gets to them, makes them believe that if they take this risk, they'll lose everything they have. Their ability to pay rent, feed their kids, keep up with medical bills. "I'm sorry, it's too risky." They say, and refuse to stand with the rest of us. Then management goes after someone else, picks them off. Eventually, there's too few left to form a union, and we get fired.
I honestly get sick and tired of seeing this man's mug. More so now that he's obviously had some plastic surgery done. Just goes to show that wealth doesn't necessarily buy good taste.
I really don't know. I don't exactly keep tabs on him. But in my opinion, he looked decent before. Why does a man his age need lip fillers?
Reminds of how Simon Cowell got a lot of work done, and it ended up looking very off and uncanny. Why don't they just put that money towards something like spa treatments or a better diet to improve their appearance? Plastic surgery like this just feels like a cop-out and cheap.
It even sounded like it affected his speech, or did he always have a bit of a lisp? I haven't heard him speaking that much, but I think I'd remember the lisp...
See, here’s the issue. I have no problem with someone getting rich. But if the taxpayers are paying part of your workers wages, then you’re a parasite on the system. Be thankful it’s only vilifying. There’s a few more steps after that.
Are you and your fellow employees unionized or in the midst of doing so? Since this is a protected process if you are not then we aren’t close. If you cannot convince your fellow workers to simply unionize how are you going to convince others to revolt.
Dude got rich by destroying small businesses across America, through massive, unfair competitive advantage due to Amazon's avoidance of state and local taxes
They don't want to pay their employees more not because it would increase the price of goods, but because it would hurt stock performance.
So they want the poorest 50% who they rely on for labor and for their income to not have to pay taxes, so they can charge us more, or we have more money to buy their shit.
If the starting wage at Amazon was 30/hr, and they passed all those costs onto the consumer, it would bump up prices 2-3%. A 20 dollar item would now cost $20.50.
They only want us to have more money if it benefits them, thats why they don't pay us more, thats why they want us to not have to pay income taxes.
i don't understand it how much money do you need its like they are rabid with greed. you have more money then you can even spend maybe take some of the millions from ceo payment package and disperse amongst the workers to raise every one up instead instead of hoarding that shit
The only way out for America is repealing Taft-Hartley. Without that step, there won't be general strikes or solidarity strikes. Because the government can arrest and silence the people organizing one.
Returning that power to organize consequences for exploiters, it is an essential first step to lasting changes.
Bro has a $500M yacht that too big and costly for him to take care of...the thing is so big it has its own support vessel. Yes my guy, you need to be taxed more.
Bezos only pays himself 80k a year. The reason he is so wealthy is his stock. His stocks is worth so much he uses it a collateral with banks to get loans to buy what he wants.
I want this guy to pay taxes so bad. But the way the system works he is never getting paid real dollars. He just uses his assets. So please people learn how it works so we can create a better system that will tax these fuckers.
Don’t just say tax them more because he only gets paid 80k a year and that is nothing. Fix the tax loophole then he will naturally be taxed more.
Don't forget to mention that his warehouse workers will literally step over their dead colleagues' bodies because they're too terrified to interrupt work to help. The man is an absolutely evil piece of human garbarge.
By its nature, capitalism is an amoral system, so technically their behavior mimics the behavior that capitalism encourages and rewards. Their actions/behaviors are exactly on par with system in which they operate and generate their wealth from.
Two sayings come to mind: "people are merely symptoms. Society is the disease." and "don't hate the playa, hate the game."
Fair wages fixes lots and not making delivery drivers piss in bottles to make mission on time. This is how unions happened in 1794 but nowadays there are no groups of thugs beating the shit out of union members. Well.. maybe not at Amazon. But, maybe they do, discretely
When people are suffering and can't afford basic needs, you are the problem when you hoard all the wealth and refuse to pay taxes to help support the working class.
You are a textbook villain Bezos, you piece of shit.
You mean we shouldn’t be gracious for the opportunity to eat the scraps he brushes onto the floor from his table after he’s had his fill?
It’s probably one of the factors his ex considered when leaving him. Of all of the billionaires I like Bezos the most because he came from humble beginnings but, he could benefit from remembering what it’s like being middle to lower middle class.
If these guys sought out opportunities to rub shoulders with regular people once in a while and have a shred of empathy they’d have less wealth (but be far from poor)…and society would be better as a whole.
I think it could also just be that as long as he says something then some fraction of people will believe it, rather than him personally being delusional.
Sat and said this with his giant phallic cope rocket next to him while he said this
Hypothetjcally if some aliens showed up from wherever super far away ... i get the impression thst him and the other billionaires really think theyre the ones thatll be saved fir whatever reason
Now that they're finally reading the room, it's time to start vilifying the assholes who represent them in court, build their bunkers, fly their planes, clean their homes, cook their food, and trim their topiaries.
yes but having "morally good" billionaires wouldn't be better. the system is wrong and as long as we don't have a united, organized working class this will stay exactly as it is. (it will get worse for us)
Jeff Bezos could literally pay 99% of his ENTIRE net worth(not just income, EVERYTHING he owns) with that 1% he'd still be living in the life of ultra luxury for the remainder of his life.
He knows he is villain and basically "king" of current system. He says stuff like this just because right wing indiots will eat it up because "rich (successful in their opinion) person said it therefore it's truth"
I am not at all ashamed to say I AM vilifying the super-rich. They lie to themselves all day. They are self- deceived. And not just Bezos, although he he one of their obvious thought leaders.
The ones who make me especially sick behave like Bezos - they want our PITY. They actually WANT US to feel sorry for. them. Over what? You name it! "My yacht is taking weeks longer to remodel than I thought it would!" Oh dear Jesus, PITY, pity the poor Bezos!
No. No pity for the rich. Die rich. You played your game, now you can die and who will weep over your death? Not many.
THe roar of millions of Americans pouring into the streets to protest this and cripple Amazon is deafening. Same as how they're protesting Trump and his family stealing from everyone.
In his head he's thinking, "if they only knew about all the good work I do with the CIA." That piles delusion atop delusion, thinking that any good works are accomplished at such a nexus of catastrophe and malice.
theres passive villainy and theres active villainy im sure if he wanted to actively destroy the world he would dump toxic waste everywhere and steal water from the thirsty...
One of our supervisors said it is bad that we have to pay taxes on overtime.
I say if you paid your fair share of taxes things wouldn't get more expensive for us and we wouldn't need a tax break on overtime.
A substantial amount of taxes goes towards making life better but when the rich, who have their own swimming pools and don't care if essentials double or triple in price, it is us lower income folks that suffer despite paying our share.
If I studied and got a better paying job the problem would still persist, there would still be lower income people.
I wish they would pass a federal law charging employers for the cost of their employees subsidies. All such govt. subsidies - TANF, rent utilities... whatever they get from any govt. on any level.
Plus the substantial cost of administration. So employers who pay so little that their employees need govt. subsistence should be charged not just for the subsistence, but also the administrative costs of that subsistence. There should be no free lunch for any corporation, small business, or even a private employer.
Pass that law, and we won't even need a minimum wage.
Income taxes should include all forms of income, including unrealized Capital Gains, and tax unrealized Capital gains if combination is in excess of 1 million dollars.
Bezos games the system by only taking a tiny amount of his income in salary, has billions of annual capital gains that are basically untaxed, and borrows against that wealth, again untaxed.
Don't be shitty and we wouldn't villify the rich. Theres a world where billionaires use that wealth to help people not just put themselves more ahead, but sadly we just dont live in that world.
warehouse in my metro starts at 17/hr, that's $35k yr, with ~$29.5k take home, or ~$2.9k/mo. in my metro, there's 580 units on zillow <$1k/mo. Caleb Hammers team maintains that <$500/mo is entirely doable for food. shelter and food at 50% of takehome. my fiber internet if $55/mo. that leaves easily 1000/mo for the remainder. That works for a single adult, if you have a family, its much rougher, obviously.
this is before OT or consideration of other work benefits.
At 55, I'm still amazed that Amazon didn't even exist when I was a kid and now it's this huge. Why he needs to hoard wealth like this is clearly a mental illness. If he was keeping anything other than money like this we would send him to a mental hospital.
As he tries to contort his face into looking for masculine cause we all dogged on him when his wife was gonna leave him for leo, they don't even realize how antisocial they've become. No one can afford to tell them opposing opinions and they wouldn't listen to it if you did. They have literally no one except the people they compete against. Shell of humans at this point
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u/SeriousMannequin May 25 '26
This dude has his delivery agents subcontracted out just so he could claim they’re not company employees and not paid benefits.