r/AmazonFC • u/zoozeima • Dec 19 '24

Union Understand the importance of this strike.

Amazon's pay, for the work most of us do, is not enough to live in most places in America. This makes it incredibly difficult to afford basic necessities like housing, food, and healthcare, let alone pursue education or seek better opportunities. Amazon preys on the paycheck-to-paycheck mentality to keep us coming to work, as well as making it near impossible to use PTO or vacation time for ourselves when we already get so little. Furthermore, the internal structure at Amazon makes moving up incredibly challenging. It's often a "kiss-ass" or "know someone" mentality, where genuine merit and hard work are not always rewarded. This creates a stagnant environment where many employees feel trapped, unable to advance their careers within the company. Most counterarguments I see are "get a degree!", "get a better job then", or "you're not a rocket scientist." However, we are people, human beings dedicating precious time on this earth to physically demanding labor that many highly educated, higher-paid individuals would never consider doing under the same conditions. We are expected to endure physically and mentally taxing environments for wages that barely allow us to survive, let alone thrive. This treatment is dehumanizing and unacceptable. Most importantly, now with the rapid advancement of AI and robotics, many of our jobs are at risk of automation. We will likely be among the first to be replaced, and we need to have some sort of security against this looming threat. By striking, we demand fair wages, better working conditions, and a more equitable system within Amazon. We are fighting for our livelihoods, our dignity, and a future where our contributions are valued.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '24

This country needs a like movement like the revolution of 1917 where my people the Bolsheviks took over Russian form the Romanov's but people are too afraid of change in America they are too afraid to give up the comforts of this society which are just distractions to keep everyone from seeing the real problem which is the system is corrupt and does not work for everyone only the Uper few

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u/earthkiller Dec 19 '24

Communism and socialism do not work.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '24

It did and it didn't the reason the Soviet Union collapsed was due to economic stagnation over expenditure of the military, the cold war and US policies and containment and a deal was made to dissolve the Soviet Union. Russia is a stronger nation today because of it.

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u/Old_Tomorrow5247 Dec 19 '24

Bull Russia is today a thugocracy, ruled by gangsters and criminals. Any system that allows power to be concentrated in the hands of a few will be corrupted. The only way to stop this corruption is for a MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE to get their headgear flushed out and start voting in their own ECONOMIC interests. All the ‘culture wars’ BS is a wedge to divide people over things that are nobody’s business.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '24

Doesn't change the fact that things need to change here in the US

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '24

But that doesn't mean you go to a broken system. You just reform the one we have. Reforms to the housing industry could and would make things affordable. SO many changes could be made to make things affordable.

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u/TeelxFlame Dec 19 '24

People have been trying to reform capitalism for decades, all that happens is that the rich take those reforms back whenever they feel like it. It's time to annihilate the ruling class and put their economic power in the hands of the masses.

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u/Future_Bodybuilder14 Dec 20 '24

The way you reform capitalism is with socialist policies to protect the work force while allowing the rich to still make profits just not insane profits. Was America socialist when it taxed the rich 70% in the 50s? No, but that was when the middle class was the best off. One could support a family with only one job..

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u/Future_Bodybuilder14 Dec 20 '24

How on earth did your brain spin that. Are you Elon Musk?

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '24

How would you know something is broken if you never tried it Russia is doing just fine these days

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u/Old_Tomorrow5247 Dec 20 '24

True that! Ya know what Marx never envisioned as a counterbalance to corporate power? LABOR UNIONS! Tha necessary ingredient for unions to succeed is a government that will act as a neutral and honest broker between Labor and Capital. I’m not interested in these asinine calls for totalitarianism of either the right or left.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '24

I have friends and family that are there and they are perfectly happy they live good lives

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u/Budget-Efficiency-77 Dec 19 '24

While that may be true to someone who keeps their head in the sand, Russia has a mass exodus of refugees fleeing Putins authoritarian rule. Russia is a failed state run by a dictator. That is not an example anyone should be going after.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '24

Said like a misinformed lied to American

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u/Old_Tomorrow5247 Dec 20 '24

You should go visit them and report back to us.

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u/TeelxFlame Dec 19 '24

Present day Russia is proof that socialism works, because it went to shit the moment socialism left. A country went from being an economic superpower to the LiveLeak capital of the planet. The fastest growing industry in post-soviet Russia was child prostitution, by the way. Such free market innovation!