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I understand that many people feel like cashier jobs at Walmart or a job at amazon is not a "career" but wouldn't you work for a large corporation because they can pay well? Many people work these jobs trying to support themselves or their families.

it just makes sense to me that the government's goal should be to try and make sure at the very least working people can afford to live

go work at Amazon and tell me those people work less than you

Wait? What was your point? Confused

you said that they are the least working people. and I said they arnt. what's wrong? can't read?

I think he meant at the very least, these working people should be able to afford to live.

yea I figured it out. commas are friends.

Commas are the work of the devil.

Corporations only owe their shareholders. Low skilled jobs pay minimum wage. If society believes that this is a significant issue, then the government should help individuals with job training, education, and increase the minimum wage. Government should do its job!

That's literally what this is. And no, the idea that corporations only owe their shareholders is the core of the problem. There are social responsibilities assumed by corporations and only in recent years have people decided that it's ok that they make profits their only concern.

A corporation may take on some social responsibilities but in the age of multi-national corporations, we are kidding ourselves when we believe corporations will act in the best interest of society.

I agree with you to that end. The issue I take is with the idea that because corporations no longer assume social responsibility, we shouldn't expect it from them. We should absolutely expect it from them, and as you said, the government needs to do its job in ensuring that.

That’s the equivalent of saying that individual billionaires should give some of their income to noble causes. I believe we should expect corporations to act within legal and ethical guidelines. Telling corporations to pay a living wage for low-skilled work is misguided.

That's not equivalent at all. A corporation and a person are not analogous, no matter what those that stand to gain billions from that being true claim (methinks there be a bias among them in this situation). A corporation only exists as an extension of society, and so should (1)

...be considered beholden to that society. A person can and does exist without the society in which they are born, but a corporation literally cannot exist without the workers and a society to use it. This is a huge difference. Besides, don't we constantly claim that (2)

Great idea, but why does it have this name? You do realise that DT is also attacking Bezos? Why didn‘t you choose somebody else as primary example?

Presumably because their stock has shot up by 70% this year and their are numerous stories of how amazon workers struggle to make ends meet and work in horrendous conditions

Why do you think that working conditions is horrendous? I'm work for Amazon UK. Working condition is decent.

I can only speak for my own experience.