I just hope they can be okay living with the reality of people who needed things, especially life saving items. But hey at least they can make sure they get theirs, and hell who gives a damn what you can do for your country when you can put the screws to people who need your services.
You stop being a hero when you stop making sacrifices.
And it seems a rather self-defeating argument, besides. Assuming you haven't yet got COVID-19, would you really like the people who handle your food and ship your goods to be working asymptomatic and shedding virus, and unequipped to protect either themselves or you?
Furthermore, in a democracy, if people don't talk about trading people, then someone else will just have to take up that decision, but now the discussion is moved to a room where people don't see. Policy is a dirty job.
As for the people who are working right now, what people deserve is the wrong word. The market is a cold world, and so you negotiate for what you can before you can't.
"Workers from both Amazon and Instacart want more access to paid sick time off. At this time, it's available only to those who have tested positive for the coronavirus or get placed on mandatory self-quarantine.
Amazon workers want their warehouse to be closed for a longer cleaning, with guaranteed pay.
Instacart's grocery delivery gig workers are asking for disinfectant wipes and hand sanitizer and better pay to offset the risk they are taking."
> Workers from both Amazon and Instacart want more access to paid sick time off. At this time, it's available only to those who have tested positive for the coronavirus or get placed on mandatory self-quarantine.
> Amazon workers want their warehouse to be closed for a longer cleaning with guaranteed pay.
> Instacart's grocery delivery gig workers are asking for disinfectant wipes and hand sanitizer and better pay to offset the risk they are taking.
"Making sacrifices" is counterproductive cheap talk if it just ends up making the whole logistics chain infected and worse off.
Food deliveries are generally safe for customers to receive assuming we wash our hands, but that doesn't mean what happens to people on the other end of the delivery - whether they're sick, whether they have access to PPE - doesn't have impacts on us, too.
Amazon is hiring, go and become a hero.
(Risking your life for less than a living wage? F that.)