Given that Amazon workers literally die in warehouses, why isn't this bombastic, attention-grabbing bill something like the "Stop Killing Your Workers Act", instead of the "Let's De Facto Stigmatize Safety Net Programs like Medicaid and SNAP Act"? /1 vox.com/policy-and-pol…
Every part of this doesn't add up:
1. If Amazon workers are on universal Medicare or go to free colleges is that bad now?
2. Bill doesn't mention $15/hour or organizing, what's needed.
3. Dems are the real pro-family party, and (via eligibility) this is a tax on family size. /2
1. If Amazon workers are on universal Medicare or go to free colleges is that bad now?
2. Bill doesn't mention $15/hour or organizing, what's needed.
3. Dems are the real pro-family party, and (via eligibility) this is a tax on family size. /2
4. The safety net absolutely raises the reservation wage of workers, increasing their power and wages by making it easier to walk away. The one piece of the safety net you can argue is ~33% captured by employers, the EITC, isn't in their list of things to demand taxes on. /3
5. Implicit argument, owners will increase wages if their workers face starvation (that owners will take on the social reproduction cost of labor!) is the weirdest. Have you met American-style capitalism? They'd let the bodies pile up before touching their stock buybacks. /fin
