I genuinely see the point and I think the argumentation that he can afford it is also sound. But the flaw is that Bezos will just hand off the cost to consumers. This won't affect his income or wealth at all. We need measures that target anti competitive behaviors and monopoly building as well as taxing people that have way too much.

What he's actually saying is, "I won't spend the money to provide the level of service we have been up to this point." Because there's nothing Mamdani has done here that will cost jobs or slow delivery times - Jeff is the one cutting jobs and slowing delivery times. Maybe New Yorkers will just stop shopping Amazon when they downgrade their services, that wouldn't be a bad thing.

What about the fact that it's ok if deliveries are slower? How many of the things that people buy online, whether from Amazon or not, actually need to be same day or next day? If there were options for "just sometime in the next month", I'd chose that.

Of course, I understand that be a logistics nightmare to schedule, I'm only making the argument that delivery speed is a more a luxury than necessity. As is Amazon itself.

One of the best arguments against this type of propaganda is to look at what actually happened in places where they treat their workers more fairly.

Like, you hear people say that fast food would become prohibitively expensive if we raise the minimum wage, but when you look at countries where they have decent minimum wages, the fast food there is basically the same price. Maybe pennies more.

The best way to combat this propaganda is simply to experiment or call their bluff. You know, try it out and see what actually happens. When NYC does this and nothing bad happens, maybe that will be a clue to other cities.

$600 a year... on extra delivery costs on the average household?

... How much are americans ordering online?

If Amazon can't operate a delivery business without blatantly exploiting workers and "subcontractors" (between brackets because the subcontractors don't operate independent at all), then they shouldn't operate a delivery business. Leave it to the companies that do respect worker's rights.

The exploitative system that Amazon wants to maintain:
*As the mayor’s office said Monday, at least 11 last-mile facilities have opened across New York City since 2020, with subcontractors running the warehouses as Amazon directs the hiring of delivery drivers, the routes they use, and requires them to use Amazon-branded vehicles and uniforms.

But while exerting control over the deliveries, Amazon pushes responsibility for the vehicles used onto the subcontractors, as delivery workers explained in a video released on social media by Mamdani on Monday.

“When injuries and worker accidents skyrocket, Amazon says they have nothing to do with it. They can’t have it both ways,” said the workers.*
https://www.commondreams.org/news/delivery-protection-act-nyc

We had a similar situation in my country (Belgium) a few years back, where the most exploitative delivery company was PostNL. The government raided and seized their warehouses for a good while, locked up a few executives for a shorter while, and then unfortunately failed to get convictions, so only administrative fines were handed out. Even though there were no significant fines, it did scare the sector and working conditions have improved since then, which anecdotally had the following consequences: shops offer choices when it comes to delivery (fake next day delivery is no longer standard, but requires a premium), cost per order went up a tiny bit (no more free delivery for small orders + next day delivery is more expensive), and deliveries became more reliable again (delivery time tables are easier to accomplish for the workers if they're not mathematically impossible).

Fox News is the very definition of billionaie propaganda.

he wasn't this concerned with tariffs increasing prices. probably was convinced to remove the tariffs warning after someone told him he would get double paid eventually.

fox news was always billionaire propaganda, culture war is thier side business to reinforced the billionaire propaganda.

Nit. We seriously need to divorce benefits from employment. Especially healthcare. I still hear people say the company pays $X for my healthcare. No fuck they do not. You have a total compensation package that includes the cash part of your salary as well as how much of what could have been your cash part was diverted to pay for healthcare. Have you ever been handed a piece of paper where they itemize your pay? You get $40k and then there’s another line where it says $10k for healthcare etc so they really pay you $50k? Well on the one hand that’s true. The company pays you. You pay for everything else. You just don’t see all of it. They usually give you that paper during raise time to justify lower raises.

We need a mental shift in this country. People need to stop believing companies give you stuff.

In their mind, all costs should be born by the consumer (and employees, of course), and none taken from their profits.

Forever.

They demand higher profits every quarter. It has to come from somewhere, and it won't be from their pile of gold.

This is why our government shouldn't base policy on what they want. They want everything, it's a given. We know

Translation: FOX News is promoting threats of econonomic terrorism against the general public on behalf of Jeff Bezos

FOX News is the billionaire propaganda mouthpiece. It's all it does.

Well, MAGA ideology propaganda, but same thing.

Scaling that down by a factor of 50,000, it's like having a net worth of $5.52 million, and a boat worth $10,000. You spent $1,100 on your wedding and bought your wife a ring worth $100.

They really have an attitude to shift shit like this on the people instead of taking good Business strategies up

What he is really saying is that he can't offer the same level of service at the same cost - and still maintain his OBSCENE profit margin.

I'm tired of these Sociopathic Oligarchs acting like they are entitled to those ridiculous levels of profit, and any "solutions" we suggest need to preserve their profits FIRST, then somehow solve our problems after that.

No, those outrageous profits are the EXACT problem. Those profits should have been shared by the workers who earned them, instead of going 100% to the guy at the top who did literally nothing to earn it.

So he will maintain the same level of service, at the same costs, and he will just have to buy one less yacht, or private jet, or Italian Palazzo this year.

You don’t get rich without exploiting. No wait, I mean you don’t keep your shareholders rich without exploiting.

Wait, he only gave her a $5M ring? Was he only applying taxable income to the two-month rule? /s

Those amazon workers don't even work for amazon, they work for contractors who pay way under the typical wage of UPS and FedEx.

Mamdani creates delivery network for NY, uses delivery revenue to pay livable salaries for drivers instead of buying himself a mega-yacht.

I don't twitter, but wasn't unusual_whales a senate stock tracker? When'd they sell out?

Andy Jassy is the luckyest Billionaire CEO alive, since leftists have literally never heard of him and throw all their criticisms of Amazon at his predecessor...