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betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11362 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
@ Clyde Yes, Socialist beliefs have again destroyed people's future.If Amazon is the people's future that's a pretty dismal future if you work for a living. |
Robert Waite Send message Joined: 23 Oct 07 Posts: 2417 Credit: 18,192,122 RAC: 59 |
Amazon pulling out of New York is not a loss for the area. The corporate leech pays nothing into the local economy by way of property taxes or income taxes. They pay nothing toward supporting hospitals, education, policing or fire protection. They do not contribute to building and maintaining roads. They are users. They are parasites. They are a blight and a pox on working people. I do not fight fascists because I think I can win. I fight them because they are fascists. Chris Hedges A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr. |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19126 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Amazon pulling out of New York is not a loss for the area. It doesn't even pay any federal taxes. Amazon Will Pay a Whopping $0 in Federal Taxes on $11.2 Billion Profits |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
Sounds like Facebook's scheme in Luleå, Sweden. https://www.svt.se/nyheter/granskning/ug/facebook-tjanade-miljarder-pa-sverige-ser-till-att-pengar-inte-nar-svenska-skattkassan Facebook received just over SEK 100 million in grants to place its servers on Swedish soil. A "strategically important" business, the government said, which also pushed through a reduction in energy tax for server halls. Now documents from the Paradis leakThe company takes the profit and the taxpayers the losses. Business as usual! |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24882 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Yes, up to 40,000 new jobs with an average income of $150,000!!!Bullsh*t! Maybe for the admin/honchos. Most of the other employees are agency workers (if the UK arm is anything to go by). The conditions for working at Amazon are worse than the old Victorian workhouse days. While experiencing issues with the system, ATOS created many more & seeing the writing on the wall, looked to getting back to work. Worked a week. Once on site you were expected to do overtime & in the agency agreement, there was a clause about that. Compulsory overtime? When I queried that, I was let go. Constantly monitored for speed, toilet breaks. Your legal breaks had to include time to leave & get back to your work position. Fair enough I took home just under £700, however would much prefer being on the road. Want a P break, easy, stop. Want to stop & grab a bite to eat, easy, park up. Economy destroying socialism? Unbridled capitalism is just as bad. |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
The state estimates the project will facilitate 1,300 construction jobs and 107,000 in total direct and indirect jobs.The Amazon company is NOT a charity organisation. They will NEVER locate its business to places where they don't get tax reductions. And with the HELP of local politicians! Yes, the construction phase will bring jobs for a year or two, but then what? Amazon is NOT a labor intensive company... Like Facebook! |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24882 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
There is one thing worse than a politician/bureaucrat/BHL & that is an individual who used capitalism to feather their own nest, retire, get bored with retirement & spew bovine excrement. Regarding Amazon - Changed your tune about "Workers of the World Unite"? |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19126 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Constantly monitored for speed, toilet breaks. How about this then, With fitness trackers in the workplace, bosses can monitor your every step — and possibly more, how soon before Amazon introduces this, if they haven't done so already. Except it will probably be more like this, Inside Ocado's burning robotic warehouse, without the burning. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30719 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Constantly monitored for speed, toilet breaks. er, https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Amazon-Warehouse-Robbinsville-Sickened-Workers-501976671.html |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24882 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Except it will probably be more like this, Inside Ocado's burning robotic warehouse, without the burning. I spoke to a contact at Ocado who expressed shock at how the fire had spread so fast.Hmm, where have we heard that before? |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24882 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Still doesn't absolve the Socialists from again destroying the future of workers. In the NYC case, possibly 107,000 new jobs, with 40,000 of them having a mean income of $150,000.& the income of the other 67,000 is what? What positions would the 40,000 hold to earn that income? Anyone can use numbers to make a point Clyde, but blindly using them is a fools game. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24882 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Nice meme. Now confirm or deny that she did that because she held a grudge. You cannot. :-) |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19126 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Don't quite a few of these 'factories' end up like this. Trump's beloved American Foxconn factory isn't going to happen |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3776 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24882 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Amazon - Apple - Facebook - Google - Trump. What have they all got in common? |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
Greedy super rich companies that not bring anything back to the society perhaps? |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14655 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Amazon - Apple - Facebook - Google - Trump - Ineos. Britain’s richest man, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who was knighted less than a year ago for his services to business and investment, has been planning to avoid up to £4bn in tax after switching his home and his fortune to Monaco.They're all prepared to hand over barrowloads of their dosh to tax accountants (PwC won't come cheap), to ensure that the head honcho doesn't have to contribute anything to the welfare of the grunts who made the dosh for him. None of them know the meaning of the word 'enough' - they always want more - more - more... |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
By following it's own rules on trade, logistics and employeers working and economic terms Amazon is allowed to change the society without no one interfering. At Amazon it's always Day one. Jeff Bezos explaines. Day two is "statious" (stagnation) followed by irrelevans, followed by excursiating painful decline, followed by death.Normally all are both producers and consumers in the economy but Amazon has changed that. If you are retailer not from Amazon then your out of business. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30719 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24882 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Oliver Twist? |
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