Comment on Amazon hit with $5.9 million fine for violating California labor law
evergreen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh no! That’s almost seven minutes worth of revenue!
Comment on Amazon hit with $5.9 million fine for violating California labor law
evergreen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh no! That’s almost seven minutes worth of revenue!
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That seemed a bit ridiculous, so I checked. You’re right.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So that would be around $2.40 fine for someone making 50k/year
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Literal pocket change.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just think of how many laws I can break at $2.40 a pop!
Cybermonk_Taiji@r.nf 1 year ago
Just to flesh out the context:
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 1 year ago
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.
Mkengine@feddit.de 1 year ago
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.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 1 year ago
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.