[void445be54d48a]

The amount of people trying to defend Amazon in this is absolutely staggering. The amount of people trying to protect what Amazon stands for is revolting. If you are one of these kinds of people you should know that you are the enemy of treating people humanely.

[AndrewUnmuted]

> you are the enemy of treating people humanely

As opposed to, what - exactly? This is quite a forced dichotomy you are presenting here, and I really don't think it is helpful, nor informative. I would expect this kind of commentary on Twitter, but I would have had a higher standard for HN.

Twitter makes money off of lighting fires under its users' asses, as does much of the media today. What you are doing here is trying to protect what THESE companies stand for. I find that to be much more revolting than those who are defending Amazon.

[viklove]

> As opposed to, what - exactly?

Putting profits over people. Which is what capitalism, and as a result, American corporations end up idealizing.

You really think Bezos gives a shit about some warehouse worker? Over generating more profit so he can be richer? I've got news for you bud.

> I really don't think it is helpful, nor informative

Only if you want to protect monied interests, or you're one of those temporarily embarrassed billionaires...

[void445be54d48a]

Ahh yes, the higher standards of HN, such as this post you have made in response to mine. Really powerful critique.

[joshl325]

Yeah, I'm surprised how this post doesn't make HN front page. Because of the number of people downvoting this post?

[thdespou]

HN trolls show their real face.

[d1zzy]

Maybe that should tell you that they may have some valid points that are worth considering.

[void445be54d48a]

Haven't seen them yet. Please point me to the valid points worth considering. Thanks in advance

[malandrew]

These types of pleas to emotion really should be saved for other social media venues like FB, Twitter and Reddit.

Defend your position with facts instead of ad hominems (e.g. "you are the enemy").

[void445be54d48a]

If you want to be a sociopath or a robot free of emotions, be my guest. The rest of us live with having emotions. Sorry to tell you that, it's part of what makes people human.

[jariel]

People are contemplating reality, not defending anyone.

Zero of the grocery stores I have visited have gloves or masks on, so why aren't people wailing about them?

N95's are actually useful for reducing spread in public places despite that the government is telling people 'no masks' - it's even more aggressive propaganda that Amazon's lack of maks policy because it's frankly a lie. The systematic objective is to get the N95's to healthcare workers leaving only cloth masks for the public, which is not necessarily going to help hance the finality of the 'don't bother with any masks' policy. It's point-blank internal affairs wartime propaganda, straight out of the movies.

Amazon workers are not more special than the grocery store, or pharmacy workers, none of whom get masks, because they're all going to the medical staff who need them considerably more.

The staffer should not have lost his job but someone should have explained 'what's up' to him.

[viklove]

> Zero of the grocery stores I have visited have gloves or masks on, so why aren't people wailing about them?

They are!

> government is telling people 'no masks'

People are calling out the government too...

It always surprises me how quickly HN commenters want to jump to the defense of rich corporations and billionaires.

> The staffer should not have lost his job

But he did, because Jeff Bezos is greedy and has no regard for human life.

> because they're all going to the medical staff

Not true, in fact Amazon was contemplating donating their stockpiles to police forces for good PR.

[void445be54d48a]

I don't know, there's a lot of people who are actively defending Amazon's position and I don't think it's really just casual contemplation in a lot of instances.

It's just not hard to see that these companies are not doing very much to take care of the people who are making these warehouses run, because they are considered to be expendable or replaceable. That's pretty shitty!