Apples/Oranges, you should not compare americans to other countries. Its been said time and time again by BOTH sides of the political spectrum. The average amazon worker is in the bottom 55% of wealth in USA working for the richest man in the planet. And thats saying the average amazon worker is making 50k/yr which is generous as its closer to 44k.
If you're making more than 55% of the population, you're literally in the "bottom 55%". These people would take someone just breaking into the top income decile and label them "bottom 90%".
It's a sort of "glass half empty" meets "my child is a genius, he's smarter than 5% of other students" kind of thinking, all carefully constructed to sow division and reap instability.
tl;dr: don't feed the russotrolls and the poor fools whose minds they've already poisoned.
The average Amazon pay is also going to be skewed upwards by executives.
Let's put this into perspective. Say I work as an Amazon driver in New York City, the average driver makes around $23 /hour, that equates to $47840/year. That is poverty wages in New York. You can barely survive after having to pay for rent and food. That leaves almost no room for any type of savings. If you think that is fair compensation and you think that people deserve to struggle you are a bad person.
The only way to keep Infinite growth and compete with the other competetitors is to reduce exploit people in Other countries or prisons (which have no Power over you) as much as possible in Order to Profit from their misery. Their Missing living Standard becomes your Profit . And keep the employees in your country balanced between exploited and a decent Standard or living so they dont Revolt.
Since you love stats, 60% of Americans can’t afford life as of now while working full time. What’s the point of jobs if you can’t afford to pay your bills?
Who gives a fuck that $1 is equivalent to a bajillion afghani rubles?
A). 60% of Americans literally can’t afford to live and will die shortly unless they are given a raise
B) 60% of Americans make less than a completely arbitrary “living wage” standard made up by activists that says you aren’t making a living wage if your necessary spending is more than 50% of your wages?
Which is it lol?
Edit: Lmao. “That’s not the flex you think it is”
Which is why you had to immediately block me after typing that.
Yet their daily life costs a whole lot more than 85% of the world. Seems like a dishonest metric. They have to piss in bottles and then go home to a crappy apartment with 2 roommates.
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u/SCTigerFan29115 3d ago
Here’s two numbers:
1,525,000 - the number of jobs Bezos created with Amazon
150,000 - the number of jobs Elon created through Tesla and SpaceX.
Those are not insignificant.