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Why is amazon treating its employees like teachers treat students

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.

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

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.

We are really gonna replay the 1920s all over again

Happened in the 1800s in Wales. They were called “truck shops”, and the English coal barons paid the miners in coupons that could only be used in their own shops, where goods were massively overpriced. The Merthyr Uprising was, by some accounts, the first place the red flag of worker’s rights was raised, and it was in part because of this.

reminder that the state joined the war on the side of the corporations

Some specific facts about this from the Battle of Blair Mountain:

• The US Army fires over 1 million rounds of ammo at striking coal workers
• around 100 workers were killed, nearly 1000 were arrested over the strike, some were tried and imprisoned for years
• the bombs dropped on the workers by the state were the first time aerial bombs fell on US soil

Minor corrections to the last addition for the sake of historical accuracy

1. Bombs were dropped by private companies, not the US military. This is not in any way a refutation of the Army’s participation in strike-breaking, merely an important point to remember: if the government doesn’t kill you, it’s probably allowing Pinkertons and their ilk to do so without consequences.
2. The aerial bombing of Black Wall Street happened first. Blair Mountain was a few months after the razing of Black Wall Street.

I also doubt the US Army fired 1 million rounds upon workers. If I recall correctly, many of the striking miners were WWI veterans or had family among the troops present; the presence of the Army alone was enough to force the battle to halt. Again, this is not an exoneration of the military, merely an explanation of how it was used.

Give me a moment to look up sources and verify this so I’m not spreading misinformation.