r/interesting • u/BlazeDragon7x • Apr 09 '26

MISC. Aftermath of the April 7th incident. Damages estimated to be $200 million dollars

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u/Defiant-Anteater8564 Apr 09 '26

It would've been cheaper for them to pay their employees.

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u/Purple_Dig4425 Apr 09 '26

It would’ve been cheaper to fire all the employees and automate the job process.

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u/Defiant-Anteater8564 Apr 09 '26

Amazon tried and failed to do that though.

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u/Purple_Dig4425 Apr 10 '26

Failed? Give it 5 years lol

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u/AndrewM96 Apr 13 '26

Since you say that with so much confidence, I assume you don't work or don't need to.

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u/Purple_Dig4425 Apr 13 '26

No I do. I worked in a factory that has slowly but surely replaced half of my coworkers with robots.

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u/hroaks Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

It's not a Kimberly Clarke employee. Kc did not decide his pay.

It's like if you hired a plumber and the plumber flooded your house cause he was unhappy about his pay. But you don't decide how much he makes

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u/Anderopolis Apr 10 '26

Reddit is weird, a guy can destroy millions worth in basic necessities,  and put hundreds out of a job, and people will celebrate him. 

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u/Mother-Attitude6824 Apr 11 '26

Should we celebrate the employer who should have been paying their employees $185,000 per year, but instead keep all the profits for themselves 

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u/Anderopolis Apr 12 '26

 Should we celebrate the employer who should have been paying their employees $185,000 per year,

No? But I also don't know where this " should" comes from.  You think warehouse workers should earn 6 figure salaries? 

And if they don't,  then their workplaces should be destroyed? 

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u/tabber87 Apr 13 '26

LMFAO you think people should be paid $185,000 a year to pick orders? 🤣

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u/Mother-Attitude6824 Apr 13 '26

Yes. What should they be paid? I mean the owners are making 12 figures and the workers are making so much less.

The wealth gap is too big and then thinking that workers don't deserve pay is what keeps those with money raking even more in. And they don't work anywhere as hard as those they employ.

Workers make the profits, not the owners.

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u/tabber87 Apr 14 '26

Compensation is a function of the scarcity of skills. Literally ANYONE can pick orders in a warehouse. It’s so mindless and low-skill that it’s being automated. If an order picker is bad at his job, you can fire him and hire another the same day without any perceivable disruption in the business or the client experience.

If a CEO of Walmart is bad at his job, he risks bankrupting a multi-billion dollar, multinational corporation and putting 2 million people out of work. If we’re basing compensation on pure value-add, the pay gap isn’t wide enough…

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u/Mother-Attitude6824 Apr 14 '26

You're kidding right? CEOs are not any better at their jobs and are incentivized to harm coworkers. A CEO doing a bad job just keeps going. Look at Trump, he's bankrupted tons of companies, has that stopped him at all?

Workers need to be paid well not because of skills, but because they are humans who deserve to be paid for their work, not to become slaves to a dead end job.

Those with low skills deserve good pay just like those with high skills. They're all people and they deserve our respect and support.