Sounds like modern day slavery. I assume they must just pay pretty well for completely unskilled labour compared to the competition, otherwise why would people put up with those conditions?
I can't say I share your perspective, but then again living in Europe I'm probably not objective.
What would it solve? Do you know the reason why the gold standard was abandoned?
If you're starving, I'll give you food without expecting anything. Taking advantage of starving people in order to make profit is inhuman.
There's no comparison between the plight of an Amazon worker who loses a job unjustly and the millions of people who were (and still are!) treated as literal chattel to be bought, sold, separated from family, mutilated, raped and killed at a whim.
Being worked to the bone while getting paid barely enough to survive affords only a very theoretical freedom and capacity for personal development.
We know this from every UBI pilot ever ran: People do start businesses and better their own situation if you remove them from the threat of poverty and homelessness.
This is unfair to actual modern day slaves.
Have you missed the following part?
> millions of people who were (and still are!) treated as literal chattel to be bought, sold, separated from family, mutilated, raped and killed at a whim.
If you're comparing the plight of Amazon workers to actual slaves, you're playing down the plight of actual slaves.
https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/25/modern-slavery-...