Oh no! That’s almost six minutes worth of revenue!
That seemed a bit ridiculous, so I checked. You’re right, except it’s not just revenue, it’s profit. They make about $900k profit every minute.
So that would be around $2.40 fine for someone making 50k/year
Literal pocket change.
Just think of how many laws I can break at $2.40 a pop!
I still wouldn’t be able to, since I spend all my money on my crippling avocado toast addiction.
Just be racist to the cashier when purchasing the avocado and in their absolute distress, walk out with it without paying.
Not sure if that’d be $2.40 or $4.80 but might be the cheaper way to fuel the addiction.
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That is absolutely insane. Completely bonkers. They’re making more money in one day than most businesses have made over the course of the founder’s entire life, throughout the entire history of the world.
It is still insufficient, but it’s also disingenuous to use the profit of their global operations to say the fine is a small cost of doing business to their California warehouses.
Does the fine have to be paid from profits made in California? If not I don’t see why this is relevant, other than semantics.
If it costs a company more to do something than not do it:
Then they won’t do it.
To make a truly genuine argument you would need to use their profit from abuse in warehouses in California, where they were fined.
Fines are obviously not doing anything to companies like this. Charge the people making decisions.
Break up these massive corporations.
That’s fun too. But ultimately has the same function as a fine. The circle of
lifeAT&T has taught us that. Nothing will change unless people are actually held accountable.
I can’t wait for The supreme Court to invalidate this and rule that fining corporations is unconstitutional… for reasons.
They don’t have to - if the penalty is a fine, then it’s just the cost of business. Everyone is fine with the system - as long as the profits gained from breaking the rule are bigger than the fine, behavior won’t change.
That number suffix should start with a B rather than M
Or at least 2 more zeros
pennies
I doubt the quotas bring in that much value but its a small price to pay for power tripping tech bros
That’s not a penalty. That’s a rounding error.
That’s like 1 hour of profits? Ooooo. They’re scared now.
Surprise, Amazon warehouse jobs are Akin to sweatshops. They try to parse bullshit to get around regulations so that they can suck every last bit of energy from their employees causing their bodies long term harm in the process.
I guess they’ll just fire these employees, cut off their insurance and send them out to pasture . I bet they’ll fill those vacant positions with newly arrived workers from other countries.
