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215 points

Openly promoting the fact that they underpay their drivers, for a limited time.

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Asking honestly, respectfully, and in good faith - is there a downside to doing this? Edit: I mean, is there a downside to rewarding the driver via this promotion.

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Yes, it undermines the idea that drivers deserve a living wage and is just Amazon dipping their toes into shifting their drivers into something closer to ‘ride share’ style independent contractors who primarily get their income from tips.

Short term benefit for long term problems.

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I mean, 100% the drivers should be being paid more and the entire system is fundamentally broken.

In the here and now though, where I can’t do anything to fix anything even if I entirely stop using Amazon forever right this moment, giving someone a random $5 that they wouldn’t otherwise have is a good thing.

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Plenty of untipped jobs are seen as being undeserving of a living wage, though, so I don’t follow your logic.

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The downside is that it costs Amazon $5.00.

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That’s only a downside if you’re an Amazon executive or shareholder. To a human being, it isn’t.

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7 points

You don’t even know if this is really giving money to anyone, let alone the driver for your delivery.

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Amazon has lots of money and they can easily afford this PR/marketing promotion that they choose to do. Amazon drivers work hard and deserve to be paid fairly for their work. Even though this is just marketing it still results in the drivers getting more money so if you order something from Amazon you might as well do it at every opportunity you get.

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10 points

“Yes, we could be paying our drivers an extra 5 dollars, we just choose not to, lol.”

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Why would they do it if they can have you do it?

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You’re not paying, you’re clicking a button to have Amazon give $5 of their money to the driver.
They could have just given a bunch of drivers $5, but then they wouldn’t make a bunch of customers think Amazon isn’t too bad.

So you should push the button, but also pointedly continue to think badly of Amazon.

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