You can say all you want about “be yourself” and “honesty is the best policy” but that doesn’t mean the company across the table from you is going to be a good actor.
You’re placing a lot of faith on the company here, and in my experience people in companies will absolutely do things like what the author listed and thinking that they won’t is just naive.
I’ve personally experienced having a former boss who’s friends with your current boss and what that can do to your reputation.
spoiler alert: even in a situation where there wasn’t a lot of bad blood, it meant a perceptible negative change towards me.
> This is a defensible opinion, as are the others saying that the most important job of humanity is to fix our current basket.
It's always presented as a false dichotomy, though. We can have both.
People insist we should be spending our money fixing the planet, but we already are, including Musk who just sponsored the largest XPrize in history for a carbon sequestration method.
First we must overcome the political hurdles to get people to even recognize that climate change is a problem. Obviously money is only barely starting to trickle in to carbon sequestration tech.
Unions are not “the end” for corporations, that’s a false dichotomy.
And I’m not at all expecting corporations to welcome unions, I’m saying unions need to fight for it. But that requires people believing in unions again.
The vast majority of those other workers won’t be flexible enough to be able to just drop and work for Amazon.
This is a problem inherent to neoliberalism, you’re right, I’m just not sure I’d agree that it requires a nation state level shift in politics to make Amazon pay their fare share in taxes and wages.
Lol, no a startup can't replace Amazon without themselves having all of those rents, and insurances, and reporting accountants and lawyers. Amazon has a logistics network that rivals the U.S. military's right now. You can't just "displace & disrupt" that with a trendy San Francisco office.
> So aside from “just stop buying from Amazon” what can we do ?
The "just stop buying amazon" arguments never made sense to me in the first place, because most people who use it are the ones budget-stretched in the first place. A lot of rural communities have no other viable options for some items as well.
It will take massive government action and that's it. There's no other way we can fix this problem. Wages are suppressed because it's _legal enough_ to suppress them. Labor fines basically become a cost of doing business.
After the union busting that went on during the Alabama Amazon unionization votes, after all of these labor complaints against Amazon coming under media attention and not a single thing being done about it, it's clear that there is truly nothing that will stop it except a general strike.
You’re placing a lot of faith on the company here, and in my experience people in companies will absolutely do things like what the author listed and thinking that they won’t is just naive.
I’ve personally experienced having a former boss who’s friends with your current boss and what that can do to your reputation.
spoiler alert: even in a situation where there wasn’t a lot of bad blood, it meant a perceptible negative change towards me.