Benjamin Cain
1 min readJul 1, 2021

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The owners make a profit by alienating their workers from the workers' work. That's what I said. As they're corrupted by their power, the owners are alienated from their humanity, not from their work. See the studies that show that rich people are less empathetic than the poor, for example (link below). These are ceteris paribus generalizations, of course, that are bound to have exceptions.

The fact that Amazon employees urinate in bottles and are desperate to unionize shows they're alienated from their work.

What a "conservative" myth it is that the owners who profit the most from their company are the ones who singlehandedly "create" the jobs the company needs. In any case, how many people has Amazon put out of business, as a monopoly? Do you think the jobless folks from defunct mom-and-pop stores top a million? Would that still make Bezos a net "job creator"?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduces-compassion/

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

Written by Benjamin Cain

Ph.D. in philosophy / Knowledge condemns. Art redeems. / https://benjamincain.substack.com / https://ko-fi.com/benjamincain / benjamincain8@gmailDOTcom

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