Amazon Lottery Offers Vaccinated Workers Cars, $500k Cash

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-06/amazon-lottery-offers-vaccinated-workers-cars-500-000-cash

by hyzyla • 5 years ago

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salawat2• 5 years ago

This is despicable.

Trying to get people vaccinated aside, using gambling to try to do it is mafia tier tactics, and for the sake of all that is Holy can we stop preying on human vice? Just a bit?

Let me rephrase the plan in unspoken management/investorese.

We make a one time investment of what amounts to an insignificant sum to the company (read fiscal speedbump) and market it to workers to get them back on premises to make up that expenditure. A bunch will comply because "You can't win if you don't play" which is a certifiable dark pattern in human manipulation.

So Amazon wins out in the end; yes they pay out a handful of winning employees, but wins in that the all the "losers" now have no excuse but to get back in the warehouse and make up that lost profit they just expended on a labor relations move that frankly, strikes me as insulting in the highest order.

RegnisGnaw• 5 years ago

You know, I can say the same thing about the government COVID vaccine lotteries by your logic:

So the governments wins out in the end; yes they pay out a handful of winning citizens, but wins in that the all the "losers" now have no excuse but to get back to work and make up that lost tax dollars they just expended on a PR move that frankly, strikes me as insulting in the highest order.

salawat2• 5 years ago

Yes, you understand correctly. The problem with that being? It's a manipulative tactic no matter who does it.

Also, if your contention is that governments are doing it, therefore it must be okay; I'd like to direct your attention to the Tuskeegee Syphilis experiments, MKUltra, or any of the other sketchy things the United States (or your local government) have been caught out doing.

The majority doing something immoral does not make it okay. Pragmatists be damned. There are things that should not be done. If you want your people to take vaccines, you bend over backwards to ensure you bust open everything hidden that could be reasonably construed as putting one over on people.

You also need to be willing to accept that some won't play ball. Period. Then move on. Not even public health gets a pass for degenerating into full on authoritarianism. Not if Liberty means anything.

And no, I'm fully behind vaccination. Voluntary vaccination. As on people agreeing it is in their best interest free from external coercive forces, be they political or economic. Otherwise it's just thuggery by people wearing nice suits.

Amazon Lottery Offers Vaccinated Workers Cars, $500k Cash

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