We could apply a really high tax rate to billionaires, but that has its own set of problems and doesn't guarantee anything will change for the warehouse workers. Governments are much less efficient than private companies at spending; a lot of the taxes will go towards 'defense'; which government should tax global companies like Amazon?
The employees could vote and decide themselves what to do with the money. After all, they're the ones who do all the work.
If not that, I'm sure if we use our imaginations we could come up with some better system than we have now. Really, it doesn't even have to happen all at once. Incremental change is still change. Perhaps, we could start by mandating that the company's books be open to the workers, or that they have a veto vote over CEO compensation. There are tons of things we could do, the problem is really power dynamics not lack of ideas.
A lot of effort goes into doing things like raising taxes and spending public money on education and health- mostly because those are the levers we have access to right now. Not because those are the things the left would really like to change.
It sounds like "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"
If someone is starving, and you have food to give them, you don't say "We could give them food, but that has it's own set of problems. I guess there's no way to solve the problem"
> Governments are much less efficient than private companies at spending;
This is frequently touted as an axiom, but usually 0 evidence is provided. Can you back this up in any way or form? Or is this just something you've heard as a political talking point?
Looking at the VC craze and company overspending during the Remove/Covid craze, it's completely not evident that private companies are 'better' at spending money than governments. If anything, many of them displayed poor fiscal discipline through overhiring and basing long-term strategies off of a limited-time pandemic.
We could apply a really high tax rate to billionaires, but that has its own set of problems and doesn't guarantee anything will change for the warehouse workers. Governments are much less efficient than private companies at spending; a lot of the taxes will go towards 'defense'; which government should tax global companies like Amazon?