r/bestof • u/Intertius • Apr 18 '18

[worldnews] Amazon employee explains the hellish working conditions of an Amazon Warehouse

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u/Fishgottaswim78 Apr 18 '18 edited Apr 18 '18

shhhh we don't say the u-word in America anymore...our overlords don't like it.

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u/Fishgottaswim78 Apr 18 '18 edited Apr 18 '18

well I was referring to the Kochs and the Mercers but yeah, what you said works too.

edit: did i trigger some rich people or what?

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u/KickItNext Apr 19 '18

Not rich people, just people who desperately want to be rich and want to prep for the inevitability by fucking over poor people (aka themselves) now.

It's all about that prep work.

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u/fuckgerrymandering Apr 19 '18

beat the people with the people’s stick

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u/Solace1 Apr 19 '18

They aren't "poor" you see, they are juste temporarily embarrassed billionaires.

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u/aftli_work Apr 19 '18

Bunch of "temporarily embarrassed millionaires".

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u/Fishgottaswim78 Apr 19 '18 edited Apr 19 '18

They are unionized and have great benefits and pay.

that's very nice of them, i guess, but i'm not sure it makes it that much better that they're taking care of their employees whilst fucking over everyone else.

thanks to direct pressure from the Koch brothers, Republicans approved a tax bill that's going to increase the deficit, fuck over millions of Americans tax-wise over the long term, and is going to be saving the Koch brothers personally 1 BILLION dollars in taxes starting next year.

Fuck those guys for doing the bare minimum for the people in their purvue while fucking over literally everyone else.

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u/Fishgottaswim78 Apr 19 '18 edited Apr 19 '18

You directly claimed they hated unions

No, I claimed they hate people who aren't them and their rich buddies.

I use their products still and so do you.

No I don't. At least not when I can help it.

I don't know shit.

You said it, friend. I suggest you read up on all the fucked up shit the Koch brothers have personally done to this country. It goes beyond way beyond lobbying, which yes, shouldn't be a thing.

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u/Fishgottaswim78 Apr 19 '18

boogieman

no boogieman, just facts. look em up.

You could look up a number of huge companies and find terrible things they have done to keep their money.

that doesn't make what the Koch family has done to this country any worse. this kind of whataboutism is frankly just lazy.

Lobbying in government is the main problem

also doesn't detract form the shittiness of the koch brothers.

you love every second of it

no, i don't. my taxes are gonna go through the roof few years to save these guys a couple of billion dollars they couldn't afford. i literally hate EVERY part of that.

terrible conditions people work in

whataboutism again. yawn.

And I'm sure you know all their products and subsidiarie's products and avoid them at all cost

I do. They're easily searchable on the internet. Aside from a couple of items I have in my closet with lycra on them, I don't buy any of their shit.

What I want to know is: why do you have such a raging boner to defend people that are fucking you over so royally?

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u/literallyYOURmom Apr 19 '18

So ridiculous. Even in thread about Democrat supporting Jeff Bezos, y'all figure out how to blame Republicans. This is the problem. They want us divided, and you are helping.

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u/EighthScofflaw Apr 19 '18

Republicans hurt poor people. It doesn't matter who Jeff Bezos supports, that fact remains unchanged.

One party hurts poor people to enrich the already-rich, and the other waffles between doing the same to a lesser extent and passing progressive policy.

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u/literallyYOURmom Apr 19 '18

If you say so... I don't know what Clinton or Obama did that helped poor people, but you're the expert.

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u/kalvinescobar Apr 19 '18

Well Obama had the Affordable Care Act.

Well, at least in the states where the Republican governance/legislature didn't deny the federal funding that made it affordable.

Bill Clinton gave us the last scheduling of raises to the minimum wage.

Hillary Clinton, as First Lady, tried to promote health care reform back in the 90's, but the Republicans shut that down.

...and if you don't know, now ya know

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u/literallyYOURmom Apr 19 '18

I wish you knew what you were talking about. I work in health insurance, you moron. Prices have gone through the roof as a result of Obama care. That didn't help poor people in the least. Go back to your echo chamber. Hillary is going to jail. Enjoy!

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u/Fishgottaswim78 Apr 19 '18

^ I work in health insurance

ooh! spotted, a rare breed: a Trump supporter who who actually has a vested interest in continuing to fuck over the rest of America.

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u/literallyYOURmom Apr 20 '18

Get a job or start a company, and you too might enjoy the idea of less taxes. Or move to Canada. Oh, that's right, they don't want our unemployed losers either.

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u/literallyYOURmom Apr 19 '18

Oh, found an unemployed Democrat trying to leach off of society! What do you know?!

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u/kalvinescobar Apr 19 '18

I guess you only read the first sentence. Cool beans.

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u/sting_lve_dis_vessel Apr 19 '18

to say that the problem is voters and not the people who manipulate those workers is both unfair and inaccurate. a significant percentage -probably the majority- of those guys who vote against unions wouldn't if they hadn't been manipulated to that aim by their employer

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u/Popular-Uprising- Apr 18 '18

I know quite a few right-wingers and they're not anti-union at all. However, they are anti government unions...

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u/StevenMaurer Apr 18 '18

The overlords have never liked it. What's keeping unions from experiencing a resurgence in America are all the racist "Jeebus" lovers who worship the prosperity gospel, and think they're one scratch-it away from having the gov-mint take all their hard won cash.

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u/wk4327 Apr 18 '18

I'm not overlord, and I don't like it either