I’m no Basis fan but it is hard to fault him for running his business in the which benefits him the most.
A successful business has a plan which pays “market wages” which are those dictated by the law of supply/demand. As long as no rules or laws are violated he is within his rights to run his business as he sees fit. This includes hiring the best qualified help at the lowest possible wage.
Basis s/b Bezos.
Because we operate in a free market?
Ordinarily I would agree with you 100% but let’s look at what Bezos and Amazon are doing....
He has accumulated more wealth that anyone in history, he revolutionized how retail works in this country that part I have no issue with...
However, he purchased the Washington Post and turned that into a 100% propaganda arm for lunatic liberal policies and to work overtime in getting rid of Trump...
He spends millions buys lobbyists and politicians to keep them from passing laws that might affect his billions...
He was allowed to operate as an essential business while all his small competitors were crushed during this faux virus scam...
Basically what I’m saying is, I have no love lost for a man who has accumulated great wealth in a free enterprise system who now wants a totalitarian system that benefits only him.......so if he gets cut down to size and is forced to pay his workers higher wages, it the long run it would be a good thing....
As long as Bezos runs a near-monopoly that’s pretty much the only game in town for jobs - the other options are just as bad. Fast-food McJobs, Walmart and Target and grocery stores. All part-time, minimum wage manual-labor intensive starter jobs with no benefits. There is a huge issue.
With 40 to 75% of all small businesses closed (some permanently) due to the CCP virus, depending on the state/ locality, and Amazon not affected, his near slave labor environment needs to be heavily regulated. He runs his fulfillment centers a little too much like the Communist Chinese-run factories he gets a majority of his goods from.
So no comment about Bezos sending the best, highest paid Amazon jobs over to India or bringing in Indians to the US to replace the few Americans left with decent white-collar Amazon jobs? All while leaving the slave labor type jobs in the US and other locations (huge problems in Europe over working conditions)? Not surprising.
Only valid in a free market.
There is no more free market, just fascism.
I agree, business is business. Betting that a high percentage of Amazon workers are single mothers with several kids to support and no father around.