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danite | 7 years ago

It's more likely that they use it to depress the wages of abled workers. This sort of unskilled labor isn't exactly scarce enough to cause meaningful competitive pressure like you describe.

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dmix|7 years ago

This worldview almost always ends up creating no jobs rather than any jobs for a greater amount of people. Always in the name of ‘good intentions’.

Having a job and financial independence vs nothing at all is the real world reality for the vast majority of these people.

Just because Amazon makes these jobs available is not taking other well paying jobs away from them. That’s not how this works.

Wether or not there should be more high paying jobs to capable disabled people is a different question.

danite|7 years ago

The US is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. If we want to make providing disabled people with fulfilling jobs that pay a good wage a priority, we are entirely capable of accomplishing that.