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Prospect Park Panther's avatar

First off, I do not seem to have any "lived experience", so I would not take myself very seriously if I were you.

Secondly, it is pretty clear that Nate Oubre's first task as Director of Innovation and New Ventures should be to purchase at least one of Hunter Biden's precious paintings That right there is the "System": create as many positions and as many departments as you can and place your people in them. The hard part is to get on the budget, to get on the trough. Once you are there, it's tough to get you out.

Or become a painter.

As per that cynical dimwit from Seattle Mackenzie. She says "systems in need of change". It's the same as the old one "mistakes were made", "someone did something"... Sure thing, you came into billions by brutally exploiting people mostly in Asia, and by equally mindlessly wasting resources. There is no free lunch, just like there is no $30 Fire tablet: there are only people forced to work for nothing, and resources that are plundered so that the rest of us can buy even more needless shit and the likes of Mackenzie can rake it in. We learned that from Walmart.

But the thing about this self obsessed dimwit is that she is not like even Oubre - who herself is a person in the system - Mackenzie owns the system. She can, if she wanted to, change the system at any time. She can make sure that Amazon workers can pee when they need to. For starters. Or give the same bennies to Amazon workers in the US as those that are given to Amazon workers in the EU.

If any meaningful change was in fact the goal.

The thing is though, and somehow Mackenzie and other Brooklynites cannot seem to get that, is that no gesture or money can wash them off. You cannot buy friends, or buy your way out of this mess.

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Trollificus's avatar

RE: Paragraph two perfectly explains the meteoric rise in tuition that by purest coincidence follows the increase in government money shoveled into the trough. And as cost of educating people should have been decreasing, the extra money was plowed into a huge increase in administrative departments and personnel (the built environments have become ever more lavish as well). This gives top administrators more patronage positions to distribute and greater access to work-mistresses.

Paragraph four was a little harsh on Amazon though. I mean, when the conditions at a non-air conditioned Ohio fulfillment center were causing workers to pass out, Amazon responded quickly. They retained an ambulance to park out front to rush the soon-to-be unemployed weaklings to the hospital!

That's where Ms. Scott's billions have come from, and SHE didn't evem create the system where I can get cheap shit on free one-day delivery.

Wonder if she see anything wrong with becoming a billionairess for the services she rendered Mr. Bezos?? Probably not.

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Prospect Park Panther's avatar

Mr T, here is Seattle Amazon also has entry level job openings, at a different level withing the company of course, with a sign on bonus of 100,000. There was also a case from a few years back when the union of Amazon workers from Germany, workers whose bennies far exceed most of Amazon workers in the states, sent a planeload of them to protest in front of the company HQ for even better bennies.

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jt's avatar

Good question, M. T!

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