Amazon, DoorDash and Walmart are trapping workers in poverty, UN poverty expert says ( web.archive.org )

"I am extremely disturbed that workers in some of the world’s most profitable companies – in one of the richest countries on earth – are struggling to afford to eat or pay their rent,” said Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.

“Multi-billion dollar companies should be setting the standard for working conditions and wages, not violating the human rights of their workers by failing to pay them a decent wage,” De Schutter said.

LoamImprovement ,

But how else can they enrich their c-suites except at the expense of literally everyone else involved?

Won’t somebody think of the CEOs?

marco ,
@marco@beehaw.org avatar

Same with Uber.

davehtaylor ,

It’s a feature, not a bug. Keep people impoverished so they’re willing to accept whatever horrifying, exploitative conditions necessary to keep a job.

Capitalism is the problem.

drwho ,
@drwho@beehaw.org avatar

I was going to say - it’s working as designed.

Swim ,

would someone please consider the shareholders…

xilliah ,
@xilliah@beehaw.org avatar

If they did that wouldn’t some other company just take over because their offer is more convenient for the end user? It only works by changing the rules of the game as far as I can tell, in modesty.

0x815 OP ,

<a href="">@Elise</a>

These are good points and possibly true, but we need to be careful. I haven’t formed an opinion on this particular matter with these three companies, but across the econony in many countries -at least in the US and Europe- we often see that the rules are fine, they are just not applied. (The bank failures in the US earlier this year are a good example: bank regulations might be good enough also for the US, but the Silicon Valley Bank and others were exempted from the rules … But as I said, I don’t know whether there is a similar pattern here.)

The best thing would be if end users would stop buying at such companies, however, no matter what the rules are. I fully agree.

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