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  • snooggums@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Openly promoting the fact that they underpay their drivers, for a limited time.

    • NightCreature@lemmy.worldOP
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      19 days ago

      Asking honestly, respectfully, and in good faith - is there a downside to doing this? Edit: I mean, is there a downside to rewarding the driver via this promotion.

      • snooggums@lemmy.world
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        19 days ago

        Yes, it undermines the idea that drivers deserve a living wage and is just Amazon dipping their toes into shifting their drivers into something closer to ‘ride share’ style independent contractors who primarily get their income from tips.

        Short term benefit for long term problems.

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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          19 days ago

          Plenty of untipped jobs are seen as being undeserving of a living wage, though, so I don’t follow your logic.

    • Lazhward@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      “Yes, we could be paying our drivers an extra 5 dollars, we just choose not to, lol.”