Big Corporations

One of the major reasons for the uneven share of wealth is, in most people’s eyes, big corporations and the government. For most lower- and middle-income families, they rely on the wages that are earned from working at corporations and businesses that may be paying their employees poorly. On the other hand, the owners and upper management of the corporations that have their employees working for minimum wage or near minimum wage pay to live off make an outrageous amount of money in comparison. The result of this is an outcry from most people who are in the lower- and middle-class and want change to happen so their standard of living can improve through the call of higher wages. A strong example of this is the company, Amazon, whose owner, Jeff Bezos, is the richest man in the world with “a net worth surpassing $150 billion (“Jeff Bezos”)”. Amazon, the undisputed largest internet commerce company of today, has had rumors and claims made that they are overworking their employees and that the company is guilty of having horrendous working conditions. This is no secret, as one could easily access numerous articles and videos detailing employee stories of being overworked and being treated as robots with “time off around the holidays, adequate breaks on shift and appropriate wages are all reportedly missing from the lives of some Amazon employees (Godlewski)”. Whilst the company continues to grow and make more and more money each year, it should be reasonable to believe that the worker’s conditions should improve as the company is seeing more success, not that the workers are continuously being worked to the bone to complete their jobs. In short, while companies are seeing more success, the workers should be seeing an appropriate amount of improvements in their work lives as such, not vice-versa.  

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