I’d love to hear an explanation for how Jeff Bezoa is responsible for a housing crisis and the idea of homelessness.
@vaguelyconcernedtriangle Amazon has repeatedly forced cities to stop tax plans that would have taxed the big companies in order to put that money into eradicating homelessness. For example, Amazon is the main donor of the organization No Tax for Jobs (75% of their funds are donations from Amazon) which worked against the bill that would have put more than $20 million per year into social housing in the city of Seattle.
It’s also been noticed how Amazon puts their warehouses in working class neighbourhoods, and this makes the prices of the houses way higher. Plus it creates a lot of displacement, since it causes masses of people to come to an area, an area which usually wasn’t ready for such a fast population boom, causing problems in public services, roads/traffic, etc.
And just the fact that Amazon workers most certainly can’t afford a decent living with how little they get payed (after having such horrible working conditions). Many of these people wouldn’t need help if Amazon was paying them a decent wage. But oh, it’s more profitable to not pay them what they deserve, and just once every while make a donation to make yourself look good.
A one-time donation from an individual to the specific organizations that work in the cities of his choosing (by the way, they are the cities where Amazon plans to open warehouses next) is never going to be anywhere near as useful as a tax, which would be bringing way more money in for a longer time. His purpose has never been to actually help, it’s just to make himself and his company look good.
Another example of not helping but having a good public image instead was Amancio Ortega - owner of the giant clothing group Inditex. He donated 310 million euros for cancer treatments and investigation, but avoided to pay 600 million in taxes in a single year through financial engineering. Imagine the extra discount in taxes that huge donation meant for him the following year.
Quit the freaking charity and giving away the crumbs: pay what you owe and let people have a good welfare state.
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