Chapo reading it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGTDJn6X-3s

One of the most frustrating you-are-a-serf things I've seen. An Amazon warehouse worker in his 60s recuperates class consciousness talking points into supporting Amazon, threatening himself with robots if he doesn't comply.

  • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Honestly, I sorta get the point he's making, or perhaps it would be better to say I could make points out of the information he's presenting. A lot of upper middle class journos will bulk in horror at shit that most working class people find pretty mundane and it often does make them come off as tone deaf. And there is a larger point to be made about Libs trying to off load the broader exploitation of the working class on a few large corporations that are in the media spotlight while ignoring all the massive amounts of exploitation being done by companies you've never heard of, or how even small "mom and pop" businesses often treat their workers like shit and are more likely to get away with it because no NYT journo is gonna investigate the Bumfuck ACE Hardware. Hell you could make a Third-Worldist take out this article "see even the Amazon labor aristocrats of the U$A don't have it that bad!"

    But the author never draws this conclusion, he just lists some things he likes about working at Amazon, including that he gets to meet a lot of brown people, who sound WAY more exploited than he is. Like what am I supposed to take away from this? Just sounds like he's salty at John Oliver.

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      The way Chapo frames it is that he envisions himself as his boss and argues from that perspective. The actions are all good things I look for in a workplace- camaraderie, diversity, safety regulations- but especially with automation it's like one of his ancestors bred with a golden retriever. He carries his own leash around in his mouth so his owner doesn't have to.