With correct amount spent in lobbying you can kill people and their children, broadcast it live and still win Nobel peace prize. This (trapping people in poverty) is nothing.
Comment on Amazon, DoorDash, Walmart, trapping workers in poverty: UN rights expert
Grimy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I don’t understand why a wage is legal if it traps people into poverty? Shouldn’t minimum wage be brought up across the board? I expect if they are doing it, thousands of other businesses are doing it as well.
We literally have a minimum wage for a reason, why are we expecting corporations to self regulate instead?
GutsBerserk@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Gabadabs@kbin.social 9 months ago
The simple answer is lobbying. Bribery is legal here, our politicians are all bought and paid for by these very companies. Laws are not usually put into place for any reason other than making them more money.
mihnt@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Well, the shitty thing, a lot of these newer companies have made contracted work the default. Make less than minimum wage with them? Not their fault, it’s yours. Decide to start a union? They’ll just cancel the contract. Fucked either way.