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   mrzaius🚸 (mrzaius@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Jan-2023 18:12:56 JST mrzaius🚸

   Ex-Amazon employees on the almost impressively cynical way Amazon smile started:

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     • :spinnenrad: Eiregoat :spinnenrad:
     @Eiregoat @mrzaius In their defense they are attempting to educate burgers
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     :spinnenrad: Eiregoat :spinnenrad: (eiregoat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jan-2023 23:32:00 JST :spinnenrad: Eiregoat :spinnenrad:

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     This is such a reddit post...
     
     > A team of amazon employees whose sole purpose is doing good in the world doesn't exist, despite employees repeatedly asking for such a team to be built
     
     No shit sherlock. Amazon's purpose is to handle logistics between producers and consumers (at a high premium). People aren't giving you money to be charitable, they're doing it to get stuff they need. Plus we all know if a bunch of amazon box stuffers were promoted to charity managers they'd just give it all to the furthest left causes they possibly could. No thanks.
     
     > Literally everything about the company is about profits, and extended customer lifetime value. Everything.
     
     As it fucking should be. It pisses me off when megacorps "give to charity." All that means is that they charged me extra to appear generous and make themselves look better all while funding my enemies.
     
     I can give my own money to charity.
     
     I will concede that it makes sense for companies to provide products and services to charities since they can provide those things more efficiently than the charities could source them themselves. But if it's just buying "goodwill" with other people's money I'd rather they didn't.
     
     > Left because there was no opportunity for promotion or upward mobility
     
     Like... what the hell were they expecting? They joined a tiny niche division in a huge company. None of the experience they gained interfacing with charities was going to be relevant to anything else the company did.