This worked as of 21:30 Eastern time on 6 December 2024.
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.
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.
You don’t even know if this is really giving money to anyone, let alone the driver for your delivery.
That’s only a downside if you’re an Amazon executive or shareholder. To a human being, it isn’t.
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.
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.
Technically youre right, but would you say the same if Putin started handing out band-aids to ukrainians who just lost their families?
Then give the tip in person. Don’t let amazon know they can count on their customers to carry the burden of paying their employees