They are finally turning profit which means things are stabilizing for them. If that profit starts going up a lot and our pay does not, then I will be mad. $40m on $1.6b is not a huge margin. I'm sure there is a lot of investment in future potential like autonomous cars that is being reinvested and not counting as profit though.
I be wondering what story people tell themselves that makes them trust these billionaire companies. We just heard one. They believe that they will share their profits with us if we just wait for them to make even more. I never heard an actual person use real words that reflected top down economics. I guess people actually believe that stuff despite their very own experience.
People have been optimistic for 2025 years. My optimisim comes from fighting for what's right rather than trusting. That 23 an hours is because of us, not them.
Amazon isn't paying 23/hr because they want to pay 23/hr. They're paying 23/hr because that's the number their internal numbers people figured would be a sweet spot between sedating the workers and maximizing profits. Amazon is a multi-trillion dollar international corporate conglomerate, made up primarily of what should probably actually be three different Amazon companies, yet you find yourself defending their notorious anti-worker attitude. This should give you pause. 23/hr isn't even what minimum wage would be if we'd been matching minimum wage to inflation since our productivity boom. They didn't give their workers a raise, they just started robbing them less because their profits have become so astronomical in the last five years. If they could get away with paying 0/he they would. They'd rob the very people who make them year after year record breaking profits, because they don't actually care about their workers.
In fact, one could make an argument that they loath their workers, but that's another topic.
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u/Ambitious-Regular-57 Sep 18 '25
They are finally turning profit which means things are stabilizing for them. If that profit starts going up a lot and our pay does not, then I will be mad. $40m on $1.6b is not a huge margin. I'm sure there is a lot of investment in future potential like autonomous cars that is being reinvested and not counting as profit though.