Comment on Amazon hit with $5.9 million fine for violating California labor law

evergreen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That seemed a bit ridiculous, so I checked. You’re right.

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  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So that would be around $2.40 fine for someone making 50k/year

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Literal pocket change.

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      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Just think of how many laws I can break at $2.40 a pop!

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  • Cybermonk_Taiji@r.nf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just to flesh out the context:

    As of June 10, 2024, Amazon’s daily profit is estimated to be around $1.29 billion, or $53–54 million per hour.

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Mkengine@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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