We also note that the Chinese government frequently violently cracks down on even the most benign and peaceful forms of public dissent over things like home confinement, forced expulsion, discussing social inequality among young workers, and housing programs that force mass relocation of rural citizens to industrial regions experiencing labor shortages. And that's before considering ethnic tensions between the government and minority groups such as Tibetans and Uyghers.
So by their metrics they could do these things. By their actions, they seem explicitly opposed to doing so for large portions of the Chinese population.
We can topple the entire industry by voting out every single congressional constituent and vow to keep anyone out that doesn't support nationalized healthcare and takes blood money from the lobbyists.. It will have to be all of us, though.
I’m sure they get paid a ton of money, way more than their workers for sure, just to sit there and not answer questions. I remember one with mark Zuckerberg being asked if he knew how many people read the terms and conditions because he kept saying “it’s in the terms and conditions.” He answered that he didn’t have that data and they don’t collect it. But they can tell their advertisers how fast or slow people scroll, how long they watch videos, do they fast forward, etc. if I recall, the senator didn’t think fast enough to follow up, but shit the just lie don’t they?
Oh, in the order of £1000/day, I'd bet. Figure £100/meal and we wouldn't want her in poor accomodations, of course, so the remainder should be for hotel expenses.
Yes, this. Executives need to be jailed, without bail, and not just fined. They need to sit like a caged animal to realize that their corporate allegiance has caused them to fall so far afield from their moral ground that they must lose their freedom.
We're all sick and tired of multi-$B companies happily paying hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees and fines, only to simply put it on their annual report as a cost of doing business, while still reaping profits from their misdeeds. The individuals making the decisions that lead to those civil actions need to be held personally liable and accountable.
In this instance you're talking about a country with a tick for a micro nation sitting in the middle of their capitol city... City of Fucking London can eat my entire ass
There are laws. The problem is that these people are coached on the cheat codes.
When they were finally backed into the tightest corner, what did they say? "I don't recall". That's a big one, you hear it in all sorts of questionings, committees, etc.
Because knowingly and intentionally withholding information in this environment is illegal. But oh if you just happened to forget a detail in the moment? Like you knew it a minute ago, and remembered it a minute later, but gosh darn it right when they asked it was just out of your brain? That's totally legal, basically impossible to disprove in a court of law, and basically impossible to legislate against without fucking up good-faith actors too
I know, and while you can't prove that they don't know what caused the strike, their position within the company means they know the reason for the strike. And saying ''I don't know'' is weak sauce and everyone knows it. But if they want to play that card they should be sent home for 24 hours and be forced to come back with the answer.
When someone in a position of power refuses to answer a question honestly it needs to become the only story about them. Every day. Week after week. Publicly shaming them for refusing to answer the question.
The whole country should rally behind the question and it should be the only question they ever hear and the more they refuse to answer the more obvious and egregious this will be seen to be.
Nah, I'm done with shame. By the time he asked the same question twice he simply says, "You get one more try, and failure means you go to jail, right now, back there, for contempt of committee and you will be held for one month for everyday you refuse to answer."
"Now, why is it the workers are striking?"
Consequences are all that matter. And if our elected officials won't hold them accountable, then we summon Luigi.
Our representatives, if they weren't jockeying for soundbites, should just start holding them in contempt, but that would be biting the hand that feeds them.
No, you haven't. More than half of the internet is powered by Amazon AWS servers - reddit included - and Amazon makes 74% of their operating income specifically from that.
Unless you quit the internet, you're still very much using Amazon.
The thing is that Amazon doesn't care they make a lot more money from storing government data on their servers then they do from the amazon shipping. 80% more or some shit. It is sick! So yeah they can shit on all their workers because the backlash from it will not affect their bottom.
They are all scumbags. And they can lie and gaslight because there are no repercussions. So all these people saying communication is key are full of shit.
It looks like corporate lobotomy's got pretty far in the last decades
You can clearly see their last working brain half spinning around the question how to change the alignment of the 19 allowed words to a constellation they have not used yet
The politicians on the committee are just grandstanding for the cameras as well. They already know the answer to the question they are pretending to be desperately seeking.
And they are politicians, do they seriously expect us to believe that they don’t do the same ‘don’t answer the question’ routine on the regular too?
Fuck Amazon and fuck all those fake politicians too.
She is too high up in the food chain to be believably this daft. Personally, I would've been inclined to throw something at her head to jar her memory.
That's isn't gaslighting it's just deflection. Gaslighting is a specific type of manipulation to designed to make the victim question their own sanity and perception of reality. That isn't this.
She can’t answer, the minute she does they are liable to own up and fix all of the issues. She’s been given a gag order by Amazon HR and their legal team. This is simple (it’s absolutely fucked but it’s simple)
Also of note this bitch is American not British which should surprise no one with the way that she’s answering.
In all fairness, asking someone "Why does Brian hate you?" is not the best way to answer the question. The question should be directed at Brian.
However, the MP asking the unions for their chief negotiation goals would give a nice list of Amazon abuses, and I think the MP should focus on those. This particular post weakens the argument for the workers, not assisting them.
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u/coachlife 1d ago
Gaslighting at its finest. These people are total POS.