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Nearly 90% Amazon India workers don’t get time for bathroom breaks, survey finds
(www.independent.co.uk)
Why do Indians tolerate this kind of abuse?
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2024
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As an employee or as a consumer? As an employee, because Haryana has weak labour protections (ever wondered why all companies put their warehouses there?) and Amazon still probably pays better than farming. As a consumer, we actually had a relatively better alternative called Flipkart, but then they got bought by Walmart and … well, you know the drill. (But they still treat their workers better, according to a survey done last year.)
And everyone will keep ordering from Amazon anyways :(
I cancelled my prime last December and havent ordered anything from Amazon. It feels good.
I try to order from other places but there are some things that are only available on amazon for affordable price.
Literally what regulation is for though it has become a dirty word ever since businesses have essentially started running the world in place of monarchs
Feudalism and nobility have never really gone away, they just changed name.
If it's any consolation, I've stopped in a general sense. Sometimes we still do, but it's rare these days.
Amazon is super consistent though, this is how they treat people everywhere.
Because we're all underpaid and both morals and suffering are relative.
That fact is so damned motivating in every aspect of our lives EXCEPT as a common starting point for us to get along enough to actually do anything about it.
Being physically separated from those experiencing the pain contributes as well, I believe.
I’d like to think if Amazon offered maid service and folks could tell the housekeepers were being abused, it would greatly diminish the service’s popularity.
Doubtful. People would just reframe whatever was necessary in order to not challenge their opinion of their own experience, because changing such a thing is seen so negatively by so many people.
The "We'll change things if we make it visable" approach has clearly failed.
As unfortunate as it is, consumers won’t take on an individual cost to avoid this behavior, when it will have little effect if no once else does. The only real solution to this tragedy of the commons situation is government intervention to stop corporations from continuing this bullshit.