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Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and refused to give them permission to sit or use a chair and later fired them after a pregnancy-related hospitalization (www.abetterbalance.org)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1392443/lawsuit-amazon-refused-to-give-pregnant-workers-bathroom-breaks-and-refused-to-to-give-t

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[–] 137 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

It's so obvious that the point is the cruelty and control and demoralization, because it is ABSOLUTELY not the most efficient way to work.

Amazon leaves money on the table because it wants to be cruel. Every business does, essentially.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    I firmly believe that after a certain amount of money there is no longer “joy” in having money and they all have to find something else to get their fix so to speak.

    It just so happens that hurting people (or more accurately, having the power to make people hurt themselves and put themselves through humiliation to please you) is the only thing that they enjoy after they’ve won the money part of life.

    Even small businesses do this, owner gets the car they’ve always wanted and then just decides to make everyone that works for them as miserable as possible, even if it costs them more money to do that, because the high from that is WAY better than the money they could otherwise make.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    When you recognize how common it is that sociopaths work their way into power, precisely because they get pleasure from controlling and being cruel to others, a lot of how the world is starts to make sense.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago

    to be a billionaire you have to be a little psychopathic, always involve screwing people over, other business partners, sewing them to get thier IP as your own. or if someone like soros taking advantage of situations.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I think this is hard for the majority of us to grasp because most of us will never get to that level of success. Capitalism has everyone so focused on getting the money that they can't even imagine what it would feel like to actually get it.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago

    I mean, the game monopoly taught a handful of generations just how awful people become when they run the game and someone ends up owning everything after controlling the bank and cheating the whole time. By the end of the game everyone else wants to toss the board game into the air or a fire and end it all.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    I firmly believe that after a certain amount of money there is no longer “joy” in having money and they all have to find something else to get their fix so to speak.

    That tracks, since it turned out that all the billionaires get off on raping children.

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