Congress has a very low approval rating. It's safe and effective to make fun of them. There's been two threads here on/. now and 90% of the comments are defending Amazon over the politician.
Amazon is one of if not the largest company on earth. Everything they're is doing here is carefully thought out and focus group tested. They picked a strategy to manipulate the voting public based on that testing, and as near as I can tell it's working. Anti-Union sentiment is strong despite reams of evidence and re
Congress has a very low approval rating. It's safe and effective to make fun of them. There's been two threads here on/. now and 90% of the comments are defending Amazon over the politician.
Amazon is one of if not the largest company on earth. Everything they're is doing here is carefully thought out and focus group tested. They picked a strategy to manipulate the voting public based on that testing, and as near as I can tell it's working. Anti-Union sentiment is strong despite reams of evidence and research that Unions improve the standard of living of all Americans. Meanwhile a well respected economics professor can barely get a word in edgewise because she comes off like an annoying school marm.
I've seen enough bad decisions by big organizations to realize that major decisions are still made by humans, and humans can do dumb things.
Amazon's anti-union PR strategy isn't some finely tuned multi-pronged manipulation technique. It's some senior execs who are terrified of a union, and when they see one coming they keep demanding more and more aggressive action until it becomes counter-productive.
Because everybody hates politicians? (Score:5, Insightful)
Amazon is one of if not the largest company on earth. Everything they're is doing here is carefully thought out and focus group tested. They picked a strategy to manipulate the voting public based on that testing, and as near as I can tell it's working. Anti-Union sentiment is strong despite reams of evidence and re
Re:Because everybody hates politicians? (Score:2)
Congress has a very low approval rating. It's safe and effective to make fun of them. There's been two threads here on /. now and 90% of the comments are defending Amazon over the politician.
Amazon is one of if not the largest company on earth. Everything they're is doing here is carefully thought out and focus group tested. They picked a strategy to manipulate the voting public based on that testing, and as near as I can tell it's working. Anti-Union sentiment is strong despite reams of evidence and research that Unions improve the standard of living of all Americans. Meanwhile a well respected economics professor can barely get a word in edgewise because she comes off like an annoying school marm.
I've seen enough bad decisions by big organizations to realize that major decisions are still made by humans, and humans can do dumb things.
Amazon's anti-union PR strategy isn't some finely tuned multi-pronged manipulation technique. It's some senior execs who are terrified of a union, and when they see one coming they keep demanding more and more aggressive action until it becomes counter-productive.