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That’s weirdest part, at this point the hoops Amazon has jumped through vs how profitable of a company they are - it must be cheaper for them to just let people unionise and pay them more + give better conditions?
Do you want to pay people more because they're better at their job or do you want to pay people more because they've been warming a chair longer than anyone else?
I really don't care to play "who deserves a minimum quality of life".
Reality doesn't care whether you care to play or not.
There's a limited amount of resources, you can't hire everyone on Earth, you can't give everyone an unlimited salary. Everything past that you're making decisions as to who gets what.
And by the way, if you make enough poor decisions eventually everyone loses their jobs.
Life's not a video game or a book.
Or because people need more to make a living? The whole argument of "it's a shitty job and shouldn't be used to support you" doesn't really work anymore.
That doesn't have anything to do with what I said.
Of course it does. They just aren't playing into your false-dichotomy fallacy. They deserve to be paid because they spend their work time at a job and they deserve to be happy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
Its a very true dichotomy.
Hey let's hire Ashok for this position! He's really good!
Oops, sorry. Bob Whiteman has been here for 30 years. He's just good enough not to fire but he has seniority so he gets first dibs on the job.
Hey, let's give Ashok a raise! He's really good!
Oops, sorry. Bob Whiteman has been here for 30 years. He's just good enough not to fire. It he's been here the longest so he gets paid the most.
The false dichotomy is assuming your choices are a massive adversarial bureaucracy or not making a living wage.
"It's a very true dichotomy!"
Proceeds to make up an imagined scenario with a ridiculous fake name to prove it's reality.
Found the guy who never worked a union job.
Found the guy with the superiority complex mad that the union didn’t fall for their sucking up to the bosses.
Not how the union works. But thanks for trying.
Yeah, it actually is.