Do you want to feel really good this Christmas? #Boycott #Amazon | Technology | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2019/dec/03/boycott-amazon-christmas-workers-ceo-jeff-bezos
The firm’s overworked warehouse staff have had to pee in old water bottles while their CEO is paid in a second what they earn in five weeks.
Jeff Bezos, says the TUC, earns as much in a second as one of his warehouse workers would earn in five weeks. It makes his performative philanthropy – such as his Bezos Day One charity, which helps families in low-income areas – slightly nauseating. If he hadn’t set Amazon up to maximise his power and overvalue his contribution, he wouldn’t have helped to create the disempowerment and exploitation he claims to want to overcome.
