Posted on 12/20/2020 2:13:34 AM PST by Libloather
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday said Amazon's jobs are a "scam" because they're not creating financial security for workers.
"A 'job' that leaves you homeless & on food stamps isn't a job. It's a scam," she said on Twitter.
Ocasio-Cortez referenced a Bloomberg News report detailing how many Amazon warehouse workers struggle to pay bills, with as many as 4,000 on food stamps.
The report said Amazon has turned logistics work from a professional career option to "entry-level" work for many. As Amazon's workforce has soared during the pandemic, safety conditions in its warehouses have failed to keep pace, according to the report.
"This is why 'Amazon jobs' aren't it & we should instead focus our public investments + incentives on small businesses, public infrastructure, & worker cooperatives that actually support dignified life," said Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter.
"Bloomberg's conclusion is false - it violates over 50 years of economic thought, and suspends the law of supply and demand," an Amazon representative told Bloomberg.
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In a classical economic case you are correct lower are prices are good things and people who can’t compete will go out of business, I agree with that to a certain degree.
But with someone like Walmart, are the lower prices really that great for everyone, certainly not the people who get crushed by them....at some point when a company like Walmart gets big enough they can use their financial clout to buy politicians and lobbyists who enact laws that allow them an unfair advantage....over competitors that’s what we should work on eliminating...
It’s like the “free trade” argument, yes it’s a good thing to get goods and services at lower prices, but there is a cost associated with free trade....
They also fund any number of lunatic liberal policies which only make people poorer which drives more people to their stores and crushes those in the middle class...
Especially when the only country practicing free trade is the USA, China certainly isn’t and getting lower priced items from them is not a good thing overall....for any number of reasons......Walmart is example #1 of free trade run amuck....
She is toxic femininity, and yes, there is such a thing. She would never say the same thing about any women who happen to be extremely rich and successful.
Amazon : “But we gave you money. How can you turn on us like this?”
Us: HAHAHAHAHAHA...
Something (s) rattling in this broad’s noggin. She’ll lijely be President within the decade.
*Something’s
I know some people who lost their jobs because of the alleged pandemic and they are thrilled to have a job with Amazon. They don't plan to stay at that job but for now it's putting food on their table.
Why would you want to take that away from them?
You said it far better, but that’s my point.
Arguing over a textbook economic philosophy that isn’t actually in use, ever, doesn’t help the issue. Too many are believing in the us v them binary thought pattern.
No means of bettering your life will lead to tremendous societal issues.
Which is where we are heading. Far worse after the lockdowns.
We still haven’t begun to feel the true fallout of the lockdowns yet.
More bad things to follow, especially with D’s in charge.
Its probably one thing on which I actually agree with her. How to change it is where we differ - a lot
America’s welfare system actually subsidizes large corporations like Amazon and Walmart
IMO, the USA is now a technology driven oligarchy....where Wall Street and other Silicon Valley Billionaires control everything we do...
Free Speech and the 1st Amendment are not longer observed, mainly due to Covid, it’s okay to get an abortion, but you can’t go to church....insane....
Wall Street is more profitable than ever, but the middle class is getting crushed.....
NYC, SFO, and LA and many other Democrat Cities are turning into third world shit holes.....
It’s only going to get worse, but IMO many places unfortunately need to fail spectacularly in order to hopefully wake people up....
History is littered with examples of the rich getting richer and the poor told, “let them eat cake”, in the French Revolution they beheaded the wealthy and powerful.....
I’m afraid a similar outcome is awaiting us...
You have some interesting ideas.
“Free Speech and the 1st Amendment are not longer observed, mainly due to Covid...
No, mainly due to the need to control the people. Only certain topics are off limits and controlled by those that can because the public lets them. Tools like covid, BLM, antiffa, crooked voting techniques, and promising the people the moon are just the means, not the cause.
“Wall Street is more profitable than ever...”
Stocks are the most overvalued since at least the 1980s.
And this is hardly a conservative site not attacking one of the main liberal points.
“NYC, SFO, and LA and many other Democrat Cities are turning into third world shit holes.....”
They are purposely being turned, not just turning. You can’t control those that can fight back.
“...many places unfortunately need to fail spectacularly in order to hopefully wake people up...
You’ll have to define failure. The public by accepting the liberal/socialist theories are indicating they are getting by so they don’t care. And welfare states like California are going to continue to throw them a bone so they won’t starve....they need their vote (whether they actually vote for them or not depending on how many votes were correct in the state).
All of it is orchestrated, and directed with alternatives. And the people let them.
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I will bet an ice cream bar that those Amazon employees were on food stamps before they got the Amazon job, and very possibly are NOT eligible to still receive such aid.
a for being homeless & working at Amazon-— PROVE IT
The only 2 working brain cells this witch has are bouncing off each other.
Did you ever read the book Atlas Shrugged written by Ayn Rand ??
I’ve read it 3 times, each time I learn something new that applies today....
In some respects the fiction of the book is playing out in real life....
The producers are in many cases running away from CA and NY, others places as well....
Texas is slowing becoming the new silicon valley.....and Florida is becoming the new Wall Street....
I don’t see these trends revering anytime soon.....
Government Services and Pensions are not going to be cut and the tax bases are collapsing...
Police Departments are being defunded and marginalized and crime is exploding....
These cities and probably some states need to be financially broken, when as Margaret Thatcher said, eventually you run out of other people’s money....
The stress needs to be so great that people eventually say no more and change course politically...hopefully for the better
That’s what I mean by fail spectacularly...
We are seeing Atlas Shrugged play out in real life, there isn’t a single John Galt or Galt’s Gulch, but it’s happening IMO....
Not believing it was ‘to survive’. She wears too much expensive make up.
40 hours a week—times 52 weeks= 2040 hours. times $15 an hour, == $30,600.
Our direction is not healthy.
IF taking groceries to your Mother is taking so much time & effort-—can you NOT find a local 18 year old female that would be glad to be paid to do that????
Find a Girl Scout or a 4-H girl to do it pay her.
Or contact a local church & have them recommend someone.
I wonder how many of AOC's constituents are on food stamps.
I like the way you think. Thanks for the suggestions.
Out of these 4000 amazon employees on food stamps, how many of them are living in cities or states controlled by democrats where the cost of living is sky high?
Amazon isnt at fault or to blame that some of their employees have to go on food stamps. They provide a job with a good starting salary.
Let’s be a little bit more sensible here:
I live on Soc Sec, and I shop only once a month, except for milk.
2 months ago, I went into a local grocery store-chain store—to get 3 pork shoulder roasts that were on sale for 97 cents a pound. Each roast is at least 12 meals for me.—for about $8 total...compared to usual price as high as $2.79/pound.
As I walked to the back of the store to find the meat, I saw Hershey’s caramel sauce-—something I use on vanilla ice cream about 2 times a week.
Price at grocery store: $3.78 Price at Wal Mart: $2.68.
That is 41% MORE at the grocery store. Same brand. Same container size.
Part 2: Went to same grocery this past week to get 4 more roasts-—same pork shoulders & got 2 for me & 2 for neighbor. I also needed milk. Local dairy whole milk at the grocery store: $5.99 a gallon. SAME brand —gallon—at Dollar General near my house —$4.10 .....That price at the grocery store was over 46% higher for the same gallon of milk.
ON a fixed income, 45 million +++ in this country on Soc Sec cannot spend $$$ like that.
Also- a trip to Wal Mart usually means I have found everything on my list. I don’t have to stop at a number of stores to get my items. That also counts for alot.
Until you have to live on a fixed income, and make your lists & stick to them, don’t be so cavalier.
Most of us worked for all of our lives & made less than $20 an hour. I bought my first house in 1966 & was making about $6 an hour. OUR Soc Sec earnings reflect that.
We took care of ourselves-—raised our kids-—paid our bills-—and MANY SERVED in the military at even less pay.
We didn’t depend on Cell Phones & On Star & Google maps to travel. We didn’t remodel the house 5 times in 40 years. We didn’t live each day & spend $$$ like there was no tomorrow.
When we INVESTED, it was in a new refrigerator or couch-—NOT a “Portfolio”.
Be careful dismounting from all your high horses...
THAT is also something many of us can do——RIDE A HORSE !!!
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