Post by account_disabled on Feb 27, 2024 3:34:49 GMT -6
Recently, as a way to stimulate the work of those who attended on Easter Sunday, Amazon decided to give an incentive to its collaborators. In order to participate and obtain this prize, they had to collect products above a certain speed.
According to Fortune , the "big" reward consisted of a bottle of water or soda plus a candy bar or bag of chips, with an estimated cost of $2. An amount that, when compared to Jeff Bezos's hourly earnings, has generated a wave of criticism from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and many others.
Salary disparity
The director of Amazon — the second richest man Chinese American Phone Number List on the planet after Elon Musk — has a net worth of $177 billion, according to calculations by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Bezos earns $8,961,187 a day—approximately 315 times the average annual salary of his company's employees—according to a recent Business Insider report. And every minute he earns $152,000, more than triple what the average American worker earns in a year.
Criticism of Bezos
The incentive for Amazon employees increased anger toward the company's anti-union behavior. Senator Bernie Sanders denounced "corporate greed," mentioning Bezos's $500 million yacht and his $175 million estate in Beverly Hills.
Although it omitted the businessman's $16 million apartment on New York's Fifth Avenue, as well as his four condominiums overlooking Central Park in the same city, his 10-bedroom home in Washington, D.C., and the 30,000-acre ranch which he owns in Texas.
Dan Price, the founder of credit card processing company Gravity Payments, who famously raised the minimum wage for his company's employees to $70,000 and lowered his own salary from $1.1 million to the same amount, also denounced Amazon 's labor practices .
For his part, author and journalist Brian Merchant sarcastically challenged Amazon's fierce attempts to end any unionization at the company.