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PARIS — Amazon threatened Wednesday to suspend all activity in France after a French court found it wasn’t doing enough to protect its workers from the coronavirus.

The online giant also announced plans to appeal Tuesday’s emergency ruling, which requires Amazon to stop selling nonessential goods for a month while it works out new worker safety measures.

Sales of food, medicine and hygiene supplies are still allowed under the ruling. However, Amazon France said in a statement Wednesday that the decision is so disruptive that it could prompt the company to suspend all activity at its six French warehouses.

The company stressed the importance of its services to the “thousands of French companies that sell on Amazon” and “millions of people around the country who want to have access to products they need during the crisis.”

Amazon insisted that it is providing adequate security measures for staff, noting the implementation of temperature checks and mask distribution.

But the court found Amazon didn’t do enough to enforce social distancing, to ensure that turnstiles and locker rooms were virus-free, or to increase cleaning of its warehouses. Unions say one worker infected with the virus is in intensive care.

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Amazon threatens to halt all activity in France after being accused of not protecting workers enough

A French court's emergency ruling Tuesday requires Amazon to stop selling nonessential goods for a month while it works out new worker safety measures.
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They have a new design, it includes an oxygen mask and even a ventilator for the worst case scenario!

There's nothing wrong with this economic system, go back to work and be a good little slave. The most honorable death is to die working to make our capitalist gods money!

All heil our capitalist Gods for being so kind to the mere worker.

Heil victory!
Heil capitalism!
HEIL GDP!

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Honestly, I'd call him on his bluff.
If you can only make a profit by breaking the law, you don't have a fucking business. You have a racket.

Even if he does fuck off (Good riddance, as if he paid taxes anyway) all it means is that the smaller mom and pop businesses aren't bullied out of the market. What a shame.
 
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Trump's Chosen said:
I wonder what it feels like for left wing radicals to know workers would rather sit in their wage cage than join a communist revolution.
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It tells me that they're afraid of a change to the status quo. I'm not a commie, but this is hardly an argument; you might as well say that every German is complicit in the Holocaust because they didn't try to swarm the Reichstag en masse. Every dominant system will naturally structure itself such that any people with political power are incentivised to uphold the system in proportion to their power. In the case of the working class, this is done through fear of financial instability.
The US's current ultracapitalist system arised as a knee-jerk reaction to the Cold War and the ideological conflict contained within, and it is a terrible idea. Without any meaningful checks, the capitalist system moves towards the greatest source of profit-generation, not anything that is good for people. Indeed, it necessarily moves away from what is good for people, as things such as human rights, a living wage, and environmental regulations are things that are not maximizing profit, which means that, eventually, they must be eliminated in the name of profit. But that's fine, because it's owning the libs and communists, right?
 
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Senior Lexmechanic said:
It tells me that they're afraid of a change to the status quo. I'm not a commie, but this is hardly an argument; you might as well say that every German is complicit in the Holocaust because they didn't try to swarm the Reichstag en masse. Every dominant system will naturally structure itself such that any people with political power are incentivised to uphold the system in proportion to their power. In the case of the working class, this is done through fear of financial instability.
The US's current ultracapitalist system arised as a knee-jerk reaction to the Cold War and the ideological conflict contained within, and it is a terrible idea. Without any meaningful checks, the capitalist system moves towards the greatest source of profit-generation, not anything that is good for people. Indeed, it necessarily moves away from what is good for people, as things such as human rights, a living wage, and environmental regulations are things that are not maximizing profit, which means that, eventually, they must be eliminated in the name of profit. But that's fine, because it's owning the libs and communists, right?
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It wasn't "hardly an argument". It wasn't an argument at all.

The joke pretty much works if you insert any other radical ideology. Except it wouldn't be as fun if it wasn't aimed at one of the groups with the thinnest skin.

Like I could make it about what it feels like for right wing radicals that people rather sit in cages, but I don't need to wonder, because I already know what that feels like.
 
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I don't thinking he understands who wears the pants in the consumer market in this situation.

Dude's shit is easily replacable, I mean it did replace everything before, who's to say no one would do that to him?
 
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Without any meaningful checks, the capitalist system moves towards the greatest source of profit-generation, not anything that is good for people
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We have plenty of laws to combat behavior like this from the robber barons and trusts of the early 20th century. They are not applied or enforced. The very wealthy are taxed heavily. They legally only pay 32% of the theoretical tax rates.

A hyper-capitalistic system does not bail out failing industries.
 
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derpherp2 said:
I don't thinking he understands who wears the pants in the consumer market in this situation.

Dude's shit is easily replacable, I mean it did replace everything before, who's to say no one would do that to him?
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He could easily ship everything from neighbouring EU countries . Only extra cost is very slightly higher postage (bourne by the French consumer) and slightly slower delivery times (experienced by the French consumer) . Any local competitor would have to obey the local French legal situation, would be up against amazon's worldwide logistics and size advantage, and would only have the microscopic relative advantage of the shipping and timing mentioned.

It is interesting to think of what sort of thing might be able to replace amazon though. As a thought exercise.
Massive Chinese amazon clone arrives fully formed with lower prices? Local street corner replicators maybe?
Far-fetched, but not as far-fetched as a working modern industrial communist society.
 
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The US's current ultracapitalist system arised as a knee-jerk reaction to the Cold War and the ideological conflict contained within, and it is a terrible idea.
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The Robber Barons and Railroad Tycoons of the 19th Century were just as bad if not worse, capitalist excess and the government/financial sector corruption that enables it existed well before the Cold War. It wasn't invented just to own the Reds, it existed back when others were paying workers 3 cents for an 18 hour day to own the Pope and every Irishman in Manhattan with civic and national governments nodding in approval the whole time.

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A hyper-capitalistic system does not bail out failing industries.
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But it is funny to see them spend lavishly on executive perks and defer buying new machine tools and slash hours to have a slightly better profit margin to flout for investors this quarter when times are good, and then due to failure to modernize/failure to produce decent product/failure to have enough capital on hand to survive a market correction, whine to the government they are so crucial to the nation's financial well-being that you can't in good faith not bail them out as they fail... pleading total ignorance of HOW this crash of their industry could have happened..... Unfortunately, sometimes that works.
 
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If they solve the issue of worker safety, why they should only be limited to "essential" items?
 
Eh... to be fair, the French are some lazy fucks. When they're not surrendering in wars, rioting, voting for socialists, letting their country be overrun with brown people, and not showering, they're not working.
 
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How much of a presence does Amazon have as an employer in France? Are we talking about a dozens of potential lay offs? Thousands?
 
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