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Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop
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    1. visakan veerasamy‏ @visakanv Jun 14

      visakan veerasamy Retweeted Joseph Fink  🐞

      I’d like to believe that this is true but it feels too simple. I am open to being challenged on this. How much cash do they actually have vs how much of it is stock? I do think it’s weird and upsetting that Amazon employees seem to be so overworked and underpaidhttps://twitter.com/planetoffinks/status/1006979457020780545 …

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      Joseph Fink  🐞 @PlanetofFinks
      Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk do a ton of objectively bad stuff, but I just want to be clear that the mere act of holding onto that much money in a world with this much inequality is in itself a brutally evil action, and alone makes them bad people.
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    2. visakan veerasamy‏ @visakanv Jun 14

      Naive, ignorant, idiot question: why do people work at Amazon when the conditions are so dire? Aren’t there other, better employers?

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    3. visakan veerasamy‏ @visakanv Jun 14

      Talking about this with my wife. General gist is that there’s a subset of the population that had poor starting conditions - so unskilled. Better jobs go to poorer countries (that are also full of hungry people who want better lives)

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    4. visakan veerasamy‏ @visakanv Jun 14

      What are the origins of poverty? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_poverty …

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    5. visakan veerasamy‏ @visakanv Jun 14

      What are the mechanisms by which wages are suppressed? Why haven’t people voted to increase minimum wages? 🤔

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    6. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jun 14
      Replying to @visakanv

      minimum wage laws don't do very much to create living wage employment. almost all minimum wage jobs are only part time and have no benefits (health care is the meaningful one, in U.S. if you don't have it through your employer it's a rough time).

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      Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jun 14
      Replying to @danlistensto @visakanv

      on a fundamental level living-wage jobs come from businesses needing to scale their capacity to meet increasing demand. the amount of demand-side stimulus you get from increasing minimum wage is tiny and doesn't move the needle enough.

      7:53 AM - 14 Jun 2018
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        1. Dan listens to rain falling on the rooftop‏ @danlistensto Jun 14
          Replying to @danlistensto @visakanv

          so for these reasons the technocrat class doesn't really advocate for increasing minimum wage. there is some organizing from grassroots to raise it (https://fightfor15.org/ ) but it is limited traction because of a loose labor market at the bottom.

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