I mean, what’s with ostensibly “progressive” companies engaging in union busting? I assume neither Bezos nor Howard Schultz voted for Donald Trump, so what gives?
What are they supposed to do then?
(I get what you mean, but IMO reducing Bismarcks policy too introducing pensions seems way to simplistic. Especially how that worked out a few decades later...)
Sure, sure, Amazon has increased the base rate for their warehouse workers, but it’s clearly not enough.
Promoting postwar politics in 2022 is not progressive, it's regressive.
If you mean they are equal-opportunity exploiters, then ok I guess. But Amazon is not progressive at all, they are driven only by calculations of profit and power. It is no different to pseudo-progressive politicians like Obama, Hillary Clinton, etc. who for example had their public relations teams flip a switch on the messaging around gay marriage the moment that the demographic data showed that it was acceptably palatable to the general public.
In practice, they're the same axis. There is no society without economy, and there is no economy without society. Plenty of people try to pretend otherwise, but the result is oodles of cognitive dissonance and mental gymnastics.
Paying lip service to diversity doesn't change the fact that they want 99% of the exact same things as the authoritarian capitalists that hold up guns and yell yeehaw.