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grimmbros1214

Why is amazon treating its employees like teachers treat students

working-class-worm

Because infantilizing your underpaid workers is the best strategy to instill feelings of inferiority and fear, while also encouraging them to want to please middle managers for better treatment while not actually improving their situation at all. Its very effective.

theculturedmarxist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip

professorsparklepants

Everybody needs to take a good, hard look at the history of West Virginia, so they can understand just how badly companies will sink their claws into your life, and how to stop them from doing it again.

thunderboltsortofapenny

We are really gonna replay the 1920s all over again

brunhiddensmusings

history wrote this was a bad idea in blood, thousands lived in this legal slavery

you owe your soul to the company, even after death they own you

but apparently some people hear that and say ‘what a good idea, lets glorify that as a life goal’