he wasn’t this concerned with tariffs increasing prices. probably was convinced to remove the tariffs warning after someone told him he would get double paid eventually.
Fox News is the very definition of billionaie propaganda.
One of the best arguments against this type of propaganda is to look at what actually happened in places where they treat their workers more fairly.
Like, you hear people say that fast food would become prohibitively expensive if we raise the minimum wage, but when you look at countries where they have decent minimum wages, the fast food there is basically the same price. Maybe pennies more.
The best way to combat this propaganda is simply to experiment or call their bluff. You know, try it out and see what actually happens. When NYC does this and nothing bad happens, maybe that will be a clue to other cities.
Like, you hear people say that fast food would become prohibitively expensive if we raise the minimum wage
You don’t even have to scale this to countries. Cities with a higher min wage have proven better results.
All you have to say is Scandinavia. Any corporatist concern trolling can be countered by a policy in a Scandinavian country.
Fast food is a crazy example they point to. You’ll spend 12-15 dollars a person easily at fast food places these days, and they serve hundreds of customer an hour. Giving the entire staff a $15/hr raise would be an extra 2-4% to the cost of a meal.
Those amazon workers don’t even work for amazon, they work for contractors who pay way under the typical wage of UPS and FedEx.
Translation: FOX News is promoting threats of econonomic terrorism against the general public on behalf of Jeff Bezos
Wait, he only gave her a $5M ring? Was he only applying taxable income to the two-month rule? /s
Andy Jassy is the luckyest Billionaire CEO alive, since leftists have literally never heard of him and throw all their criticisms of Amazon at his predecessor…
The only way to working class to win is to hijack the capitalism itself. Workers have to create pressure on the stock prices of large corporations themselves through collective action.
eh, biggest misunderstanding the left has is that anyone actually gives a fuck about shareholders. unless you have a 10%+ stake nobody gives a fuck about you as a shareholder, they exist to hold bags. and with how the US casino is setup specifically, ultimately price action is dictated by whoever has the most $ at play (with the lowest cost average, and assuming fundementals don’t assert themselves)
what workers need to do is learn the value of their labor…which is why US oligarchs have spent so much effort the last 5 decades killing public education (and before that, they designed it around growing compliant factory workers). stupid/purposefully misinformed people are easy to control
$664 million a year ÷ 7 million in NYC < $94.86/year per person in NYC
The tweet says $664 per household. Not $664 million in total.
Thanks for the correction. 🙂
So let’s say $664 million/year ÷ (8.5 million people ÷ 3.4 people per household) = $265.60 per household per year.
Let’s say $664 million/yr ÷ $100 000/yr per Amazon deliverers = 6640 well-paid Amazon deliverers in NYC.
If NYC has 778.18 sq km of area,
that would be 6640 ÷ 778.18 > 8.5 Amazon workers in any sq km of NYC, or < than 11.82 hectares of NYC per Amazon worker —assuming they all worked the same shifts.
You need to learn how to read.
*8.5 million
ty. 🙂
What about the fact that it’s ok if deliveries are slower? How many of the things that people buy online, whether from Amazon or not, actually need to be same day or next day? If there were options for “just sometime in the next month”, I’d chose that.
Of course, I understand that be a logistics nightmare to schedule, I’m only making the argument that delivery speed is a more a luxury than necessity. As is Amazon itself.
Amazon actually does have that option for deliveries. It’s typically labeled either “Amazon Day” (where they try to group orders into fewer deliveries / boxes, though it’s pretty mixed on that), or No Rush (where it might be a week out and they give you a dollar credit for something as an incentive).
Though that’s usually more “in the next week or so” than “next month”
This option has always been a huge scam. Whenever I choose it, Amazon waits until that day to even ship the thing, then it takes an extra day or two on top of the voluntary initial delay. So my 2 day delivery turns into 6-7 days
The one time I used that option I ended up with 3 separate deliveries on the same day
Not to mention that theres almost always enough order volume for a bulk same-day delivery. Id imagine theres enough orders for 30+ deliveries in a 4 block radius on any given day
I avoid Amazon but when I do make the mistake of ordering from them, they literally hold my order until the delivery date. It’s effectively same day every time, to encourage me to buy Prime.
They also deliver 24 hours a day here. Multiple vans daily. It’s all a farce to avoid paying their fair share.
No I have prime and they do the same thing, I figure it’s just the bottleneck not being the delivery itself.
The bottle neck being that they refuse to pay drivers more money so are always short staffed.
$600 a year… on extra delivery costs on the average household?
… How much are americans ordering online?
My online orders dropped off to basically nothing since the tariffs began. Now I buy EVERYTHING from brick and mortar just like the good old days.
And I’m never going back to the online shopping horse shit either. At least with stores you can shoplift guilt free with zero carbon footprint.
I’m not even American, but even I order tons of stuff (not from Amazon*). Basically anything other than groceries.
Oil, filters, belts for my cars? Twice as expensive in person. Other parts? Not in stock at those stores and still more expensive - it’ll get here by next workday afternoon (sometimes same day), so it’s still faster than online, but I have to visit the store twice or call ahead and in general, mistakes happen more easily when I’m not the one looking at parts catalogues.
Computer parts? The big chain may have some stuff in stock and its prices are fair, but the closest store to me is 70 km away since I no longer live in any of the major cities. The other electronics stores don’t really sell desktop parts and the things they do sell (thumb drives, cables) are overpriced compared to online stores.
Hell, when my kid was young enough to get formula, I ordered that online in bulk to get a discount compared to buying in person.
Usually get most of my shit delivered to a package locker rather than to my door, but I’d guesstimate about ~30-40 orders a year. If I didn’t get free delivery on half of them (online car parts store has free parcel locker delivery starting 50€ cart and free home delivery starting 70€) that would easily be 150€ in delivery costs a year. The question is what kinda math Amazon be using here because they could just claim that Mamdani’s going to 5x the cost of delivery and then even a modest amount of deliveries like mine would balloon to a huge amount of “extra” cost.
* Had to make an exception this year, this was like the 3rd time I’ve ordered from Amazon in my life. Needed two special tools for my car. VW/Audi of course would’ve charged me a grand total for the originals. Local online retailers had one of the knockoffs for just under 100€ but nobody had the other one. Aliexpress showed a month long delivery time from China and prices even slightly higher than Amazon. Amazon got me both tools for 60€ delivered in under a week. Not complex tools whatsoever, but fabricating shit at home is a pain if you don’t have a welder. I should learn to weld.
I’ve gotten spoiled by grocery delivery, but usually stick to the $25 minimum as best as possible and find that in the end I’m spending far less than wandering the grocery store.
USA Amazon user. A lot. But I have better financials than many.
Example: Cat litter that we prefer comes in 25lb boxes. Why lug that when it can come to your door? I don’t think my spouse could even lift it due to an injury. But I feed the Bezos machine and I’m not proud of it.
Nit. We seriously need to divorce benefits from employment. Especially healthcare. I still hear people say the company pays $X for my healthcare. No fuck they do not. You have a total compensation package that includes the cash part of your salary as well as how much of what could have been your cash part was diverted to pay for healthcare. Have you ever been handed a piece of paper where they itemize your pay? You get $40k and then there’s another line where it says $10k for healthcare etc so they really pay you $50k? Well on the one hand that’s true. The company pays you. You pay for everything else. You just don’t see all of it. They usually give you that paper during raise time to justify lower raises.
We need a mental shift in this country. People need to stop believing companies give you stuff.
But but we can’t tax the Job Creators! /s
What he is really saying is that he can’t offer the same level of service at the same cost - and still maintain his OBSCENE profit margin.
I’m tired of these Sociopathic Oligarchs acting like they are entitled to those ridiculous levels of profit, and any “solutions” we suggest need to preserve their profits FIRST, then somehow solve our problems after that.
No, those outrageous profits are the EXACT problem. Those profits should have been shared by the workers who earned them, instead of going 100% to the guy at the top who did literally nothing to earn it.
So he will maintain the same level of service, at the same costs, and he will just have to buy one less yacht, or private jet, or Italian Palazzo this year.
Jeff Bezos doesn’t work at Amazon
Look, I’ve been trying to get people to understand this for 5 years now, but i guess online leftists respect Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon, too much to demand change from him.
