30 points

Also a lie in lots of places.

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This person may be a higher up at Amazon, knowing that unions will diminish her bonuses (salary) because the workers underneath her are making more and no quotas are being met.

This is no excuse though

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This was from the amazon beef with Bernie sanders back in like 2019. Amazon created a bunch of these fake accounts only to be called out for it later.

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/30/amazon-twitter-defenders-fake-accounts

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I doubt any higher up is “barely scraping by”. And as another comment brought up the recipes, this is most definitely a bot.

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5 points

Won’t someone think of the “higher ups”?

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After the last few weeks, I imagine there’s a bit of “not like this!” Going on

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When I was a union rep there would be people that would bitch about the $70 bucks a month or whatever the dues were. I would explain that without the union their pay would be far, far less (not even bringing up the benefits of work hours, vacation days and whatnot). Like the “all taxes are theft” morons, the words often fell on deaf and willfully ignorant ears.

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42 points

They probably have no idea what the Homestead Strike was.

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While I don’t agree with her sentiment, I can absolutely believe some human union employees would say this. I don’t know if this applies to Amazon jobs, but in the union I know (caregivers) one problem is workers with very few hours have to pay the same monthly dues. Still not really a valid point for most people, but for those few that get caught in it, definitely bittersweet and they will grumble.

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I remember feeling this way when I was 18. I thought “well the laws already cover me, so why am I paying for this?”

Anyway, I grew up since then.

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I used to consider myself libertarian. Now I understand how basic that is.

Think of it this way, when you’re way ahead in a video game (one without anti-snowball mechanics), how hard is it to maintain and grow that lead? First, when it’s a team game, you’re likely to have opponents just leave, or start fighting each other.

Some people will say the world isn’t zero sum, which is true. But when they take the whole sum, it sure feels that way.

Besides just what is right, the economy works better for everyone when people have money to spend. People who have something to lose commit less crime. If all the money does collect in very few hands, the economy grinds to a halt.

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24 points

Does she know it’s (usually) voluntary?

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But that’s not true. It depends if you live in a “right-to-work” state. Currently there are 26 of them, mostly red states. I would assume that, by population, the majority of Americans do not live in “right-to-work” states.

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Yeah I live in a populous red state and was forced to join a union for a job. It was as bad as how they forced me to wear hearing protection and steel toe shoes on the factory floor. Watch out or you may be forced to do such things as well

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She doesn’t exist. Profile picture is AI generated from https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/

The person who wrote the xit surely knows how unions work.

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That’s not even close to the profile picture shown in the OP. What are you on about?

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It generates a new one every time you refresh the page. The one in the OP is unique. You won’t get the same one, but if you seen enough of them you can spot these AI generated photos. There is just something off about them. Since the lighting and skin texture is almost always the same and the eyes are sort of dead. And the eyes are always in that same spot.

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