{"id":457,"date":"2020-03-19T14:04:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T14:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moneydelusions.com\/wp\/?p=457"},"modified":"2020-05-02T12:01:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T12:01:40","slug":"coronavirus-amazon-squeezing-workers-unacceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moneydelusions.com\/wp\/2020\/03\/19\/coronavirus-amazon-squeezing-workers-unacceptable\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Amazon squeezing workers “unacceptable”."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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https:\/\/www.azerbaycan24.com\/en\/amazon-squeezing-workers-amid-covid-19-crisis-is-unacceptable-french-finance-minister\/?cf_chl_jschl_tk=87bc0cd9fbd6c3b2d9b38d1168015e34c8425d67-1584621871-0-AdgqRVnYRkygZ207fh9by5kTd_juzE3wnYY9cOwcqwx5eOeb44m-0EF_bPMVWVta9HbFWypcx1ziUQK_kUjcRe4bmxX3S5uK1mv-O2-HBnv_9nEiHDKVVbeOD95P0RD_HJrHu7cL2KtQwZukaqKsQGd3mLBhkdjUTBUWE_-cKDPZ6Eg7cjUnChIi68xjhKcMi5EXOLH2Yh5hNk1ln8QbBucB92UhXwIp4nyuG74wrGoXkYYS2EFjZ46E9APjXzOyDdCM4UEivaJRW3-VCf0fcYAHUqfxtEzdzBHnA-CHa6rDgCTcNYAp1zviT0OW9QUAUqS0Ew0ePqU69ZodhITlSI8X0x68TxvXk1LpcZ7WlleXYyufHd-GjZjrsLm6kTu_6HMnZj0oGsCuh9TkLx4MBA6S11938rTXg-0W1YHUisMrOeTY5ZJCDbYdJ3OmjuZdG9b7fLW7u0ti4kRygBvrHNE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MD:<\/strong> Here at Money Delusions we are constantly comforted with how a “proper money process” makes even enormous problems and issues almost go away. This is a good example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the Covid-19 crisis, we have the general class of problems that affects everyone simultaneously in a global fashion. If the solution is for everyone to shelter in place, well, that puts out of work everyone who can’t do their job remotely\u2026they can no longer trade their value to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article takes a case in point where the French government is dictating a solution (e.g. shelter in place). And Amazon is responding rationally. It’s really all about where the buck stops. Here are the steps: (1) Government dictates quarantine. (2) Amazon workers comply. (3) Amazon workers don’t get paid. (4) Government says “that’s unacceptable”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, it’s interesting that government acknowledges that some things are not acceptable. I, for one, find that government taking a full 3\/4ths of what I earn is unacceptable. If I just declare it unacceptable (which it obviously is) nothing happens. But if I refuse to pay tax \u2026 well, the government pulls rank and forcefully takes my stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the case of government, they seem to think it is acceptable to demand workers be paid for doing nothing when doing nothing is dictated by the government. If the government feels that way, the government should be doing the paying. But in reality, no-body should be doing the paying. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a free market of traders, traders deliver value and are compensated. Failing to deliver value results in no compensation. It’s just that simple. A calamity like Covid-19 is not the only thing that can tip over trader’s apple carts. There may be severe storms. There may be destruction of their work place. There may be a death or illness in the family. All such things are really the trader’s responsibility\u2026not the responsibility of their trading partners nor of governments (to whom they trade their freedom for safety).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what does all this have to do with Money Delusions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember, money is “always and only created by traders like you and me”. It is “never created by banks nor the governments they institute”. So if the citizens are going to give government this power they must expect to suffer the consequences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This represents a perfectly good reason for a trader to make a trading promise spanning time and space \u2026 i.e. to create money. The trader knows his trading is going to be inhibited for maybe up to 1\/4 or 1\/2 a year. He hasn’t planned for this. Once it has happened, he studies the situation and sees this is likely to happen in about 7-1\/2 year intervals. So he immediately creates money to carry him over this 1\/2 year of making no trades with the promise that he will return and destroy that money over a 7 year period (e.g. 84 monthly payments). That gives him a good cushion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this way, all traders take their own responsibility for the problem and initiate a solution. Over that period the trader can adjust his prices or work more hours to make up for this unintended idle time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we read this article I think we’ll find that the government claims the responsibility is Amazon’s \u2026 not the government’s and not the traders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazon squeezing workers amid Covid-19 crisis is \u2018unacceptable\u2019 \u2013 French finance minister<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Amazon\u2019s refusal to pay \nwages of staff who walk out over coronavirus fears is \u201cunacceptable\u201d as \nthe country is considering nationalization of bigger companies at risk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MD: <\/strong>So it is evident, it is the trader who is refusing to work. Thus, it is the trader who must suffer the consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese pressures are unacceptable, we\u2019ll let Amazon know,\u201d Le Maire said after several hundred workers protested the company\u2019s policy on Wednesday. The e-commerce giant refused to pay workers who walked out or stayed at home in self-isolation over coronavirus fears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le Maire said Thursday that he would soon present a variety of plans to President Emmanuel Macron to assist the country\u2019s biggest companies, such as BNP Paribas, Renault, Air France KLM, through the coronavirus crisis, some of which might include nationalization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

MD:<\/strong> Nationalization? The government just takes one trader’s business to satisfy another trader’s grievance? That’s what you get when you trade liberty for protection!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have several options on the table for all of the major industrial companies which could face major threats on the market, it could be us raising our stake in their capital\u2026 or it could be nationalizations,\u201d Le Maire said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MD:<\/em><\/strong> And where does the government get its “stake”? By stealing from traders. Government shouldn’t be able to do this. With a “real money process” it wouldn’t be able to do this. Governments never deliver on their promises. They just roll them over and that is default. A real money process would ostracize them.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.azerbaycan24.com\/en\/amazon-squeezing-workers-amid-covid-19-crisis-is-unacceptable-french-finance-minister\/?cf_chl_jschl_tk=87bc0cd9fbd6c3b2d9b38d1168015e34c8425d67-1584621871-0-AdgqRVnYRkygZ207fh9by5kTd_juzE3wnYY9cOwcqwx5eOeb44m-0EF_bPMVWVta9HbFWypcx1ziUQK_kUjcRe4bmxX3S5uK1mv-O2-HBnv_9nEiHDKVVbeOD95P0RD_HJrHu7cL2KtQwZukaqKsQGd3mLBhkdjUTBUWE_-cKDPZ6Eg7cjUnChIi68xjhKcMi5EXOLH2Yh5hNk1ln8QbBucB92UhXwIp4nyuG74wrGoXkYYS2EFjZ46E9APjXzOyDdCM4UEivaJRW3-VCf0fcYAHUqfxtEzdzBHnA-CHa6rDgCTcNYAp1zviT0OW9QUAUqS0Ew0ePqU69ZodhITlSI8X0x68TxvXk1LpcZ7WlleXYyufHd-GjZjrsLm6kTu_6HMnZj0oGsCuh9TkLx4MBA6S11938rTXg-0W1YHUisMrOeTY5ZJCDbYdJ3OmjuZdG9b7fLW7u0ti4kRygBvrHNE MD: Here at Money Delusions we are constantly comforted with how a “proper money process” makes even enormous problems and issues almost go away. This is a good example. With the Covid-19 crisis, we have the general class of problems that affects everyone simultaneously in a global fashion. If the solution is for everyone … <\/p>\n

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