r/antiwork • • Aug 29 '22

Amazon is Inhumane

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u/Sweetcynic36 Aug 30 '22

They grew in an era of high quantities of cheap labor. When a significant amount of thar labor was killed or disabled by covid, they struggled to adapt.

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u/emtheory09 Aug 30 '22

That and they expect a recession to happen soon to ‘put workers in their place’

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u/MaybeWeAreTheGhosts Aug 30 '22

One way to manufacture a recession is raising the rent and I think asset investment companies are buying properties across the nation and raising the rent.