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g980 posted...

People have had to work to survive since they werent hunter gathering in caves. Thats not a new thing and it isnt coercion

And yea the lack of protection for unions is awful, but irrelevant

Those were all bad as well. When people had to pay the king in crops or be jailed, that was bad. Just like having to enrich a capitalist to survive is bad. No one said it's new. Having to work to sustain yourself is one thing, having to work to enrich someone else and still not be fully sustained is another.

The lack of union protection is very relevant to everything we're discussing. That's the context in which Bezos accumulated this wealth. If his workers had unions, they would have made more, whether he still somehow had the same amount or less. And those workers didn't have them because of people like him and businesses like his stopped it from happening with those very same resources they got from underpaying disconnected workers.

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