They have the money to spend on advertising/hiring chuds to defend them. But they don’t have the money to do it correctly.
Means they think it’ll cost more than they’re spending to prevent it.
One interesting and fucked up related fact is that when Amazon expands its delivery network it has a bunch of last-mile delivery services spin up to their specifications, promising them business. Then, after it analyzes its output and determines how much excess delivery bandwidth it has, it just leaves whatever last mile delivery businesses it doesn’t need holding the bag (and a bunch of Amazon branded delivery trucks, because of course Amazon doesn’t front the cost for that necessary investment).
Which is why you see rental trucks delivering Amazon in my city.
My last Amazon package came from some random guy in his own car.
Love this move. I’ve been dying to see some action taken on Amazon.
A good rule of thumb…if the billionaires are against it then the people should automatically be for it.
Okay. The bill is an interesting one. It does have the side effect that it will significantly damage independent courier services. Which, New York City being New York City and all, they’ve got a lot of two or three employee ran courier services.
I get what the ultimate goal here is. Amazon would then have to pay particular wages, insurance, 401(k) options, etc. That’s a great goal. But Amazon contracts a lot in NYC. Which means the courier business in NYC isn’t owned completely by a single entity, now the primary customer of that industry is one really big company, but Amazon doesn’t own any of those couriers.
What this will do, is force Amazon to buy all of them out. Hire the employees and give benefits. But it will also mean that Amazon owns most of the NYC courier service in the city at that point. Now obviously, it’s better for Amazon if they don’t have to have employees and just subcontract, but push come to shove, if they have to by law take stake, they’re going to want to own all of it. And when Mamdani is gone, they’ll have a unique position to convince a Mayor from the other side to pull the ladder up.
Now all of this is just me thinking out loud. Don’t take any of this with any significant grain of salt. I get what the goal is here, I’m cool with that. But forcing Amazon into the courier service in NYC and take ownership, I can’t imagine them wanting to play fair once they get in. And this honestly relies on a lot of the “new invented” local union that this would create to mitigate a lot of issues.
I get the goal, I’m just thinking concentrating Amazon into pure entity that dominates entirely a local industry is asking for trouble. Maybe I’m being cynical.
Couldn’t they also just make sure the contractors are actual contractors? They shouldn’t care what vehicle you drive, how many people it takes, what kind of clothes you wear, or exactly what time it gets done. Just deliver X number of packages in Y number of hours for Z dollars.
“That tension is real, and the transition has to be handled with care rather than triumphalism.” This is very AI imo, but that’s the only part that stood out to me as slop
Can’t even spell “the” correctly in the subtitle before the fold, not the attention to detail required to take an article seriously
Why don’t you post another source then? Because the content of the article is fucking awesome
Because fuck Amazon for being Amazon and fuck Amazon for cozying up to the Nazis
It is still not fixed, written and forgotten, not exactly where I want to form my opinions
I have not used Amazon in over 5 years, but shit like this makes us look like amateur chumps
That’s why I asked if you could find a better source. If you’re having trouble, feel free to ask for help
You don’t really get how it works, articles written need to be credible, you can’t ask the other side to find something better
In this case I agree with the content but amateur mistakes won’t help anything we want
