How can Jeff Bezos make $77B during the pandemic yet deny his workers sick and hazard pay, plus try to make it hard for Amazon workers to unionize? His being “charitable” doesn’t make up for that. No amount of private charity can compensate for a basic lack of economic justice.

Mar 22, 2021 · 10:57 PM UTC

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We can’t rely on the morality of billionaires as a sustainable model of capitalism
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Replying to @marwilliamson
One of your guests, Rick Doblin, said someone like Bezos was simply aggressive by nature ... and sees every event as a contest ... a competition ... But does that give him the right to hurt others ... including his own employees? ... I think we should break up these manopolies.
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For the same reason Congress bundles a cornucopia of special goodies in an “Emergency relief Bill” so it takes 3 months to pass. In reality they have other priorities.
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As long as we live under the oppression of the Capitalist system there will always be good Capitalists like Bezo who don't see humanity in human labor.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
What we need is an organized system of mandated charity - one where all of the rich contribute, and all of the poor benefit. We could call it government.
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I am being quite serious here, Bezos isn’t that bad. He pays his workers $15 an hour to start, and most make more, and he offers the best health insurance money can buy, in addition to education benefits, generous time off, etc. He isn’t the demon he’s portrayed to be. Walmart is
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Replying to @marwilliamson
It's truly unfair for one person to make that disgusting amount of money. There are people on lines for food, getting evicted, suffering. How many mansions can you live in? How many cars can you drive at once?
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I give up "How deny his workers HP" real nice guy. He's forgot where he came from!
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