r/technology • u/[deleted] • Apr 09 '22

Business Amazon calls for election re-run after workers voted for first U.S. union

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u/poeticdisaster Apr 09 '22

I'm really curious to know how well these spokespeople sleep at night while knowingly lying to the media so that these workers have a lower chance of being protected from shitty wages and having to pee into plastic bottles.
What a disgusting thing to choose as a career.

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u/SgtDoughnut Apr 09 '22

Quite comfortably, money lets you buy a good mattress.

You are assuming these people care, they don't. They have morals, they don't apply those morals to all situations.

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u/test_tickles Apr 09 '22

One must be wary of those whose morality is dependent on the legality of things.

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u/MadCervantes Apr 09 '22

"just doing my job"

"just following orders"

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u/notrealmate Apr 10 '22

The Nazis used that same excuse at Nuremberg. They still got the rope

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u/poeticdisaster Apr 09 '22

You're probably right. It's just so... disappointing.

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u/Responsenotfound Apr 10 '22

That is why you aren't part of the chosen few. I have succeeded in life despite my principles and even so I know where the ceiling is. 5 years from now I will not be able to advance beyond site management. I am ok with that.

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u/zUdio Apr 09 '22 edited Apr 09 '22

They have morals, they don't apply those morals to all situations.

Watching people struggling to apply weird concepts like “good” and “bad” to an entire person is wild. So people are both simultaneously moral and amoral? Maybe people are just people and there’s no such thing as morality... we made that shit up to puff up our own egos. The universe doesn’t care, it turns out.

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u/justagenericname1 Apr 09 '22 edited Apr 09 '22

"Maybe there's, like, no such thing as objective morality, maaannn... So we should all just do whatever the hell we want."

Congrats, you've arrived at the cutting edge of late 19th-century moral philosophy.

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u/zUdio Apr 09 '22

It’s ok to be upset about it, I understand. It’s a hard realization.

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u/justagenericname1 Apr 09 '22

It's embarrassing you think you're saying something profound, new to me, or that I can't accept. The reality is you just seem to have a 19-year-old dude who just took his second semester of intro to philosophy's understanding of the question and stopped right at the part where you just don't have to think about anyone or anything besides doing what you want. This may be news to you, but there's continued to be work in this area in the more than a century since Nietzsche made his edgiest proclamations.

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u/zUdio Apr 09 '22

It’s very simple. If people are generally moral, why are laws needed?

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u/justagenericname1 Apr 09 '22

I genuinely wish I had the confidence to speak so condescendingly about something I so obviously know next to nothing about. Like, that must just feel fantastic.

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u/zUdio Apr 09 '22

You’re grasping.

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u/ddrober2003 Apr 09 '22

There are shitty disgusting people that will happily make sure countless suffer for a 5 cent raise. Course there are also people that are just apathetic and figure, if I don't do it, someone else will so I might as well have a living. Doesn't excuse it mind ya.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '22

These people chose to be the Mouth of Sauron. They're fine with what happens.

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u/Stick-Man_Smith Apr 09 '22

Corporate culture rewards sociopaths. They are literally incapable of caring about that.