Why Jeff Bezos’ Amazon Is More Evil Than Walmart and McDonald’s

[guillaumeb]

187. keep on posting my friend

Have not been at DU as a poster for very long, but have read on the site for a while. I agree with you that there is little support for labor even on the Democratic side. Very sad when working people, the 90% who have to work for a living, behave like the rats in the behavioral experiment that turn on each other when the scientist/capitalist reduces the food supply.

This mindset is partly the result of 30 years of the Reagan philosophy that greed is good. The American corporate media glorifies thieves like Mutt Romney, Jamie Demon, and Jeff Be-elzebubzos while constantly characterizing actual workers, and especially unionized workers, as overpaid and greedy takers.

Amazon, like Wal-Mart, like McDonalds, like Uber, makes massive amounts of money for the owners by deliberately paying their workers a non-living wage. Does it really matter that you can but a shirt cheaper at Wal-Mart if the workers there cannot afford that shirt?

70% of the GDP is composed of consumer spending. Anything, low wages included, that depresses that spending depresses the economy. ECON 101 as opposed to the SupplySide 101 that passes for economic knowledge even on DU.