James O'Brien's clash with LBC caller over Amazon workers' pay

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This is James O'Brien's clash with a LBC caller over the pay of Amazon workers.
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@J.D.M2.1 2 года назад

This man sought to defend a company that avoids taxes, gets government subsidies, rakes in 10s of billions of profits, with horrible working conditions owned by the 2nd richest man in the world against minimum wage workers that have had to urinate in bottles on occasion and are asking for more than 35p a hour. Absolute madness

@boomslangCA 2 года назад

Well, the poor guy has to pay for that yacht plus the smaller tender yacht for the helicopter that takes care of it. The man has needs.

@peterdockrill9653 2 года назад

During the pandemic, Jeff Bezos made so much money that he could have given each of his 876,000 Amazon employees across the globe a $105,000 bonus and still walk away with the same outrageous fortune he had before the pandemic began.

@cujimmi 2 года назад

Do you use amazon?

@peterdockrill9653 2 года назад

@@boomslangCAHe needs the money for the Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket so he can play astronaut

@nbnrm2895 2 года назад

I deleted amazon subscription a year ago when I found out how employees are worked and payed.

@ynmonroe 2 года назад

It's sad. You see this argument time and time again, especially where I am in the US. Basically people are so infatuated with the dream of being mega wealthy that they fight against their own best interest. It's so bizarre AND absurd.

@stevemitchell1454 2 года назад

America is a broken society. Huge wealth and terrible poverty. Wages for the working and middle classes are hardly higher than they were in 1976.15pc of children born in the US are born into poverty. Life expectancy is shameful.

@ynmonroe 2 года назад

@@stevemitchell1454 No disagreement here.

@forestsunset9617 2 года назад

If you start your own business you can become a billionaire, we all can all become billionaires!

@joriskemper5392 Год назад

@@forestsunset9617 Try starting a business on below living wage. Watch the billions flowing in. Yeah, doesn't work like that apparently.

@forestsunset9617 Год назад

@@joriskemper5392 i was being sarcastic

@roni7172 2 года назад

What a deluded man the caller is, I think he'll find that without people willing to graft and bring his idea into fruition, Amazon would still be just that, an idea.

@raymondo162 2 года назад

deluded? the man's clueless. TOTALLY clueless

@garymole819 2 года назад

That's not true. Lots of major corporations started with one man. The would wouldn't just be an idea. They just wouldn't be as large as they are today.

@fundyden4771 2 года назад

Amazon started in the guys garage selling books.

@newmie01 2 года назад

@@fundyden4771 and the point is

@stefanos9882 2 года назад

@@fundyden4771 And at some point he realized this is not viable and found people to pay less than the total amount of value they produced. Value difference that was added to the pocket of Bezos and Amazon

@windsorSJ 2 года назад

Any company who doesn't pay a decent salary to enable people to live a modern life shouldn't be in business. Simple.

@alexatkin 2 года назад

Indeed. Its a sad thing, but it applies to small businesses also. If your argument is "I can't afford to pay a living wage" then you're not a viable business, plain and simple. The irony is people are holding up Elon Musk as some sort of inspiration, when all he is doing is throwing money he doesn't actually have (a lot are government grants) at uneconomical business models. Because whilever people are foolish enough to invest in him, he can do that, doesn't mean any of the businesses will ever be profitable. At least Jeff Bezos established a viable business, although its kinda worse seeing as it would STILL be viable even if Amazon workers were paid fairly.

@davidwuhrer6704 2 года назад

@@alexatkin Throwing money at business ideas is what investors do. They don't all have to survive, if only a small fraction become viable, those make the money back for the investor. The rich keep getting richer no matter what. But Amazon should not be able to underpay their workers. They are doing what is legally not forbidden to increase shareholder profits as much as possible, which they have to do to avoid a hostile takeover. This isn't even about Bezos, it's not his decision anymore. It is the internal logic of the stock market.

@tonygange7636 2 года назад

@@alexatkin How about business that model their profit on cheap foreign labor, do you hold them to the same standards?

@stevewelsh8560 2 года назад

leave, then they can't operate, if you are so poorly paid, get a different job or go on benefits, too many foreigners take the poorly paid jobs which makes it harder for British workers to get anything better paid and therefor the company don't have to up their wages to attract the labour, they know there are so many foreigners that will accept it as they know no different.

@windsorSJ 2 года назад

@@tonygange7636 Definitely! One rule for all.

@hypatia4754 2 года назад

I will never understand people who defend millionaires as if they were being personally attacked. I DON´T GET IT. What have they ever done for you?

@SoFarSoGoodSoWhat14 2 года назад

It's just another example of how we're all groomed into capitalism from birth

@suzyqualcast6269 2 года назад

Hoping to one day being called a pal, maybe.

@Kevinacharles 2 года назад

Worse, defending billionaires.

@daltons9341 2 года назад

I never understood why people get mad at millionaires and want them to get their money away

@dudushe 2 года назад

Same as working class people voting Tory, for whatever dubious means. Bananas 🍌

@jujitsujew23 2 года назад

These people are literally holding back society from progress. All James did was use the caller’s own logic against him and the caller couldn’t handle it. He clearly thinks that some day he’ll be ultra wealthy

@J5L5M6 2 года назад

And here I was thinking that behaving as such was purely an American phenomenon.

@jujitsujew23 2 года назад

@@J5L5M6 the Tory’s and their voters are basically Republicans. Boris Johnson was the British version of Trump. They have GBNews now which is basically a Fox/OAN equivalent. Tory voters vote against their own interest just like Republican voters

@kanedNunable 2 года назад

@@J5L5M6 no we have a long history of knowing our place in this country

@Hamish_A 2 года назад

If Amazon didn't exist they would probably have a job in any one of the 1000's of small companies that no longer exist after Amazon crushed them with its questionable tax practices and insatiable appetite for customers. No denying it's super efficient, but that equates eventually to less jobs overall as well.

@keithgriffiths9864 2 года назад

100% agree. Amazon has killed the highstreet

@UnknownPersononGoogle 2 года назад

@@keithgriffiths9864 The high street killed itself with overpriced goods and no places to park and also the hours they are open aren’t favourable to people working full time.

@jamiebunsell3299 2 года назад

@@UnknownPersononGoogle local council want the buildings for apartments.

@deanlowdon8381 2 года назад

Amazon have run a huge number of small companies out of business by undercutting their prices and taking a loss until the competitor loses all his customers.

@daiberry1152 2 года назад

@@UnknownPersononGoogle They are 'overpriced' on the High Street because they actually pay tax to the government. Unlike Amazon.

@joshkirby2372 2 года назад

The politics of envy line instantly makes you aware that the user has no understanding of politics or economics.

@stevenmoore3480 2 года назад

Spot on, there are many signifiers of a lack of critical thinking... they don't get it when you point these out... surprise that!

@quantumjourney1 Месяц назад

Yeah, sounds like a line straight out of Bullingdon Boy's Club

@paulslater9061 2 года назад

The worst thing is he believes what he's saying

@AJ-xv7oh 2 года назад

No the worst thing is these people are everywhere.

@Gringos007 2 года назад

@@AJ-xv7oh yeah idiots that read newspapers and believe it

@joscott6476 2 года назад

@@AJ-xv7oh 👏👏👏👏

@modelsmanagement2374 2 года назад

Can’t ask for a pay rose because of inflation otherwise everyone gets a 10% increase so £300 a day becomes £330 it’s not affordable for all companies, great caller

@bennkev 2 года назад

Do you believe in what you're saying?

@tompoynton 2 года назад

If you can't afford to pay your employees a living wage, then you can't afford to be in business. Asking people to work below poverty wages so you can own a business IS entitlement at it's finest. You are asking human beings to use their lives to subsidize your desire to own a business. Small businesses are just as culpable. If a job is worth being done. it's worth being paid enough to live. End of.

@woofpet 2 года назад

Couldn’t agree more! It’s one thing to subsidise wages for a very limited time for a start up company, but companies raking in vast (or in fact ANY) profits and paying such low wages that employees have to claim benefits is beyond disgusting.

@markbriten6999 2 года назад

@@woofpet and since Amazon does avoid taxes in this country why should the tax payer have to subsidize it with tax credits or universal credit payments to keep their workers heads above water 🌊?

@woofpet 2 года назад

@@markbriten6999 exactly! I don’t think ANY company, with the possible exception of start ups for a very limited time, should be paying below living wage though.

@calibrax 2 года назад

Amazon's base pay is already higher than the National Living Wage.

@tompoynton 2 года назад

@@calibrax Do they want a pat on the back or something

@thomasjamison2050 2 года назад

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

@UnknownPersononGoogle 2 года назад

In the UK where I live there’s poor people who lease out a brand new 4x4 for like 70% of their monthly wages and the rent and food/bills taking up the rest and they act like they are millionaires online. One who lives near me calls himself a “self made man” while he works for someone else on minimum wage and spends his money on a car rental per month. Very sad society.

@MiningForPies 2 года назад

@@UnknownPersononGoogle where I used to live a load of people had Audis and BMWs they bought when they remortgaged their right to buy council properties 😒

@elcristoph7380 2 года назад

That and socialism doesn't work..

@MiningForPies 2 года назад

@@elcristoph7380 well it does. But never mind eh.

@jam2095 2 года назад

I love when people who don't work in the sweatshops advocate for the company owners who do not pay taxes, pay their employees fairly or care about anything other than profit margins. This guy had no idea what he was talking about...the sad part is he probably doesn't make much more and still doesn't get it.

@pancakesyrup9250 2 года назад

Blissful ignorance. We have made this behaviour and way of thinking into the norm we have became a bunch of masochistic slaves

@temptemp4174 2 года назад

It sounds more like he's a small business owner and he's just trying to save his own back by chiming in to say that raising wages is bad.

@RossKempOnYourMum01 2 года назад

He will be a small business owner with loads of buy to let multi occupancy properties. Guaranteed.

@jam2095 2 года назад

@@RossKempOnYourMum01 Well if he is a small business owner he can look forward to Amazon pricing him out to undermind him and buy his business dirt cheap.

@Brogel 2 года назад

In Belgium pay rises automatically, by law, to match inflation.

@NeuroticPanda Год назад

"I'm not twisting your words, I'm holding up a mirror. It's not my fault you don't like what you see." Single handedly the best sentences I've ever heard.

@matty7758 2 года назад

The government should subsidise with all of that tax they take off amazon right? 😂😂😂😂

@justinphilpott 2 года назад

"For the avoidance of doubt, I'm not laughing with you, I'm laughing at you" :) hehe

@buckchesterfield8886 2 года назад

No American starts a business on their own. At the very least they are standing on the economic and social foundations of the country. They benefit from the infrastructure and the workforce built up over generations by taxpayers big and small.

@karinaz8756 2 года назад

There is no such thing as a self made Billionaire. There are men that were born into money, given huge tax advantages, or someone exploiting their employees. Or a combination of the three.

@roderickjoyce6716 2 года назад

Nobody anywhere starts a business on their own unless they're trying to open a corner shop in the middle of a desert. 😀

@stevemitchell1454 2 года назад

In this day and age no-one starts with nothing in the developed world.

@Gon5i Год назад

1. If your company cannot pay fair wages, your company should not be in business at all. 2. The employer does not "give" a job, the employee gives his work power to the employer. 3. There cannot be an company without a workforce, but there can be a company without shareholders. If you think otherwise and keep defending companys and the ultra rich, go to Wikipedia and read what the meaning of "stockholm syndrom" is.

@xdef1ne 2 года назад

If small businesses have to underpay their workers to get by then they shouldn’t be a business to begin with.

@ObiAssist0612 2 года назад

Don't forget the 0 hour contracts that most workers are on.

@craigdavidmack 2 года назад

only job that pays under minimum wage and gets away it because the drivers are self employed

@Anwar157 2 года назад

If a business cannot pay it's workers fairly, then it shouldn't be in business.

@lindy-loumaddock5979 2 года назад

OMG, what can you say to someone who even ends up arguing against themselves??

@bobbylite7179 2 года назад

this guy's logic = everyone should be able to ask for a pay raise EXCEPT for everybody..... very strange indeed.

@cloudyskies1323 2 года назад

In my work the budget is set for 12 months and no matter how much the cost of my bills, I will not get a rise until April. This is common prudent business practice. Bearing in mind I work for a non-profit care and support company.

@gotcha4006 2 года назад

Would Amazon exist without the warehouse workers Shabir?

@kennylloyd7645 2 года назад

Erm, someone needs to tell Shabir that people working for Amazon are employed on Zero hours contracts. And as for shareholders? Well Shabir is obviously too young to remember the fact that Thatcher sold this country back in the 1980's and it is completely controlled by shareholders

@yorkshirepud0 2 года назад

That caller is completely detached from reality

@daisyhoward5472 2 года назад

The caller: 'Yes but when I'm a billionaire by finally getting round to reading all my 30 Tony Robbin's books I want to be allowed to do the same. So I must stick up for my brothers.'

@scottmcginn2169 2 года назад

It's not even technically a payrise, it's maintaining the value of the paypacket by having pay follow inflation. Banks increase interest rates in line with the Reserve Bank, it's fundamentally the same. Otherwise our paypackets are decreasing

@borachon26 2 года назад

Politics of envy. Amazon being asked to make a meagre increase to wages of 35p is the politics of envy.... This guy sounds like the sort that is disgusted a minimum wage even exists.

@travelwell6049 2 года назад

The government should subsidise the wages for one of the world’s biggest country? 🤦‍♀️

@davidperfect8409 2 года назад

The argument that if wages increase small businesses will go out of business is trotted out by the US Republican party every time an increase in minimum wage is proposed; it never happens.

@danegerous24 2 года назад

Walmart employees have to apply for Food stamps while the Walton Family together has more money than Jeff.

@pontifixmax Год назад

According to the caller, Amazon can't afford to give employees a pay raise so the government should subsidize it. I'll hold his beer while he complains about taxes.

@gazza4484 Год назад

What an embarrassment to my city

@tru2harris998 Год назад

AWESOME JAMES YOU BLEW HIS BRAIN AND EXPOSED HIS TOTAL IGNORANCE AND LACK OF EDUCATION AND UNDERSTANDING!!! FABULOUS!!

@gheller2261 2 года назад

As the American commentator Thom Hartmann says, if giving your employees a cost of living pay increase will cause you to reduce staff, then something is terribly wrong with your business.

@deborahneale7048 2 года назад

Jeff Besoz would NEVER work for the money he pays his employees.

@kincaidwolf5184 2 года назад

I agree with James but he is absolutely rude in how he speaks to people. I have no doubt in public he wouldn't have the courage to speak to others like that.

@OwlsEyelash 2 года назад

I always wonder who these people are who kneel for the rich, the powerful, and the oppressor.

@johnbekoe2973 2 года назад

This is one of most despicable person to be on James show

@danyul69 2 года назад

Nationalise Amazon

@neilsmith154 2 года назад

The politics of envy clearly does exist. Which is why most conversations in UK around pay end up as comparison of other people. This is not the case of Amazon and this is not what we are discussing. This is about having enough money to survive.

@jeromekeeper620 2 года назад

Without them Jeff wouldn't have any money either!

@sharonbarlow2262 Год назад

Why should the govt bail out low pay. We know it does through the benefits system. The fact is a proper wage would stop the need for the tax payer propping up these multi billionaire companies

@briangraham5156 2 года назад

The tap dancing that was done by Shabir was a performance worthy of Bill Robinson (“Mr. Bojangles”) or Eleanor Powell.

@vivalaleta 2 года назад

Amazon makes absurd amounts of money. Need? Why should need be the basis of payment?

@karebushmarebu233 8 месяцев назад

“What does the wealth of an employer have to do with the employees” So… this man doesn’t understand basic economics?

@UnknownPersononGoogle 2 года назад

Just think after the Second World War in the UK businesses paid 100% tax to help rebuild the country! And businesses couldn’t accept this offer fast enough there was actually a queue of businesses who wanted to pay it but couldn’t get processed fast enough as they wanted to help rebuild the country and help make a fairer society. They were actually PROUD to say they pay tax back then. Fast forward to the Thatcher 70’s and onwards businesses want to pay the least tax possible and try to dodge paying it whilst the poor man shoulders all the financial costs whilst services get cut because there isn’t enough income being taxed to fund said services. The gammon who defend the rich today are shameful, just think university for example used to be FREE up until the late 60’s before it was scrapped, Britain would be so much better if we had the post war mentality back.

@AnnaP-uh3mc 2 года назад

“What has one man’s wealth got to do with his employees” omfg the stupidity 🤦🏽‍♀️😩🤣

@Berlitz81 2 года назад

Giving pay rises to keep up with inflation which is primarily caused by international events outside of our government's control will only increase and prolong the inflation disease. Inviting people onto a programme then laughing at their genuinely held views is gutter journalism.

@markwelch3564 2 года назад

We do have to take money out of the system, but there's no room left to tighten wages. It will have to come from somewhere else!

@rewdwarf123 2 года назад

So, the idea is to not get a pay rise, which reduces your spending power, and the lower demand for goods and services will make them sell them cheaper, thus lowering inflation. Okay...

@stringer6435 2 года назад

prob is if bezo was to pay staff more he would only increase amazon product prices…these billionaires worship money so they not going to make less… plus that caller needs to understand without tax avoidance and low paid jobs bezo wouldn’t be as rich.. his exploiting people who he knows dont have many options to work anywhere else so why pay more!

@stevenshipway9033 2 года назад

if one of, if not the most profitable companies in the world can't afford to give payrises then absolutely no company can afford a payrise. . . This guy needs to stop licking wet bricks.

@fuzzystomach2088 2 года назад

"created these companies from nothing" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Onisilos 2 года назад

The most fearing of all, is that this plonker (caller) can vote.

@Grim_Beard 2 года назад

Taxpayers _already_ subsidise the profits of private companies, because most of the UK's benefits bill goes to people who _have jobs_ but can't afford the cost of living. This caller is an absolute ignoranus.

@Biozene 2 года назад

This caller isn't worth 1/10 of minimum wage.

@billhowie21 2 года назад

Straight to the point, the guy is a complete nut job. No idea of how to support his view Well done James your on fire. 🔥👍

@ekawalaski65 2 года назад

People, or some people, really should write down their thoughts and what they intend to say before they start speaking or attempt to make a logical argument. Then, read what's been written down out loud to themselves. Maybe then they can realize how ridiculous they sound, and perhaps can work on how they process their thoughts.

@Daithai96 2 года назад

Sadly his opinion shows how effective Tory messaging has been.

@supernoodles91 Год назад

'What has one mans wealth got to do with his employees.........'🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Thick as mince!

@johndicksonkaraoke2554 2 года назад

Amazon Employees Workers Need To Unionize World 🌎 Wide.

@pugmanick 2 года назад

The employer (Amazon in particular) does share some responsibility for the rise in inflation. Many companies are profiting massively from falsely inflating prices over and above the cost increases. Look at BP - record profits, at the same time as record prices. Funny that.

@aguitarcalledchutzpah 2 года назад

If you can't pay your workers a living wage then you shouldn't qualify as an employer since you're obviously not a successful employer

@niclewis9610 2 года назад

It's like living in an alternative reality when you can be convinced to vote against your own best interests. 🤯

@paulinegibson7010 2 года назад

The caller is just a complete and utter plonker !

@ameliecarre4783 2 года назад

So there exist people who seriously ask the question "what a man's wealth got to do with his employees'?" That must be fantastic to be him, he lives in a magic fantasy land apparently, where things happen without cause or consequence.

@antkelly88 2 года назад

Are you suggesting we should nationalise Amazon? 5 mins earlier...the Govt should subsize their poverty wages with tax payers money.. 🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠

@azz6639 2 года назад

Some people don't have a clue

@valdofranc3470 2 года назад

How they've gotten the common man to argue and fight against its own interest is very fascinating.

@JJVernig 2 года назад

And it's a nightmare also..

@harrytoms90 2 года назад

He sounds like a small business owner thinking this will effect him

@harrytoms90 2 года назад

Pretty delusional

@tybes99 2 года назад

That's where we are now unfortunately. It's not even an exclusively American or British thing either

@owenokane9643 2 года назад

This fool is not the common man. He's a Victorian throwback.

@BobMackyy 2 года назад

Imagine Normal working class everyday people thinking more about the multimillion and billion companies at the end of the road than themselves. this is where we have been at for far to long

@rogueceska 2 года назад

yep never understood the hero worship of greed

@markmeade2937 2 года назад

Everyone is being brainwashed, and it’s being implemented from schools upwards …

@andylane247 2 года назад

Absolutely. The planet cannot afford billionaires...

@michaelhughes6634 2 года назад

I don’t understand people sometimes. Like Jeff Bezos isn’t a self made men he’s just hired lots of amazing people to do the work for him.

@kanedNunable 2 года назад

@@michaelhughes6634 after a nice big loan from his parents too.

@jayzeus645 2 года назад

The scariest thing is that cruel idiots such as this caller walk among us everyday

@johngodley256 2 года назад

There is a symptom called borderline schizophrenia, just witnessed it.

@telz4521 2 года назад

you took the words out of my mouth, there's to many of them

@casperwallace9685 2 года назад

This used to be said in the 1970/80's. I am guessing he is an business owner.

@JJVernig 2 года назад

And they vote...

@patrickburns574 2 года назад

And get to vote ffs

@jordanwood3150 2 года назад

"Without Jeff Bezos there would be no million Amazon employees" I could easily turn that around and say without the 1 million Amazon employees, Jeff Bezos wouldn't be the richest man in the world.

@stevenmoore3480 2 года назад

without that and OUR infrastructure that he pays nothing for...

@trrexxx 2 года назад

And consumers would buy their goods from other companies that would exist if Amazon didn't.

@johndicksonkaraoke2554 2 года назад

Amazon Employees Workers Need To Unionize World 🌎 Wide.

@xbabu142x Год назад

You missed the totally real not made up lore where Bezos is actual a high nevel necromancer and those are actually all undead. If you are wondering why they are not undead anymroe they got better.

@HumansAreShitFactories Год назад

Anyone can pick/pack/deliver. Not everyone can build a mega business. 😎

@oldthumbs81 2 года назад

I'm always amazed at people who come out to argue AGAINST a living wage as the social standard.

@AJ-xv7oh 2 года назад

Tory.

@peterw4338 2 года назад

This would be a typical Brexiter type of argument. They are projecting their own envy upon others. They will argue a point until it effects them directly and then deny that they ever argued in the first place.

@vinnythewebsurfer 2 года назад

It’s hard to undo centuries of religious and authoritarian brainwashing that has insisted that poor people deserved to stay poor and atone for the next life to try again and rich people deserved all their money without questions of how or where this capital came from.

@lucastaylor2321 2 года назад

Spoilt first worlders

@merkuree 2 года назад

It's the usual "I had to experience bad conditions, so it would be unfair if the people after me did not" mentality that this echelon of people employ to every issue. It's literally just projection of envy, but to admit that to themselves would infer that they were incorrect, so instead they deflect blame elsewhere, as they have been taught to do by their representatives.

@Alex-cw3rz 2 года назад

"Own risk" he had a $400,000 gift from his parents to start the company, that would be unbelievable today, back in the 90s that is the equivalent now of over 2 million... own risk is nonsense

@peterw4338 2 года назад

Reminds me of Richard Branson, rich parents bought him a business and then he pretended to export vinyl records in order to get tax refunds. After he gets caught his mother pays the tax authorities and he avoids prosecution

@JJVernig 2 года назад

It's not only the money, it's the security in the back of the mind that your parents of something else will always help you if you Fxxx-up.. I've seen it with a lot of children with wealthy parent. If it succeeds it's nice, if not, not a man overboard... So wealth stays in that family, even though they maybe not even really invest.

@Alex-cw3rz 2 года назад

@@JJVernig so true

@Alex-cw3rz 2 года назад

@@peterw4338 didn't know that

@suzyqualcast6269 2 года назад

Own family risk, happen.

@didyeaye2481 2 года назад

The main thing killing these much lauded "small businesses"....is Amazon, ironically. That man is a total plonker.

@kanedNunable 2 года назад

yup. small biz cant compete with tax dodging mega corps.

@FatRonaldo1 2 года назад

“Without Jeff Bezos none of these people would have jobs” - well they would, in all of the small businesses Amazon has destroyed

@FatRonaldo1 2 года назад

@Psyched Guy and they actively stop people selling the original product so only their version sells

@JottoHearthStone 2 года назад

What the caller demonstrated here isn't ignorance, or incompetence, its a lack of critical thinking. At no point did he ever just stop and examine his own beliefs and try to reason through them. If you can't present a line of logic about something you believe, maybe you should stop and think about it.

@Cam-mo7gq 2 года назад

Spot on.

@michaelccozens 2 года назад

It's deeper than that. What he's exhibiting is deliberate ignorance in support of self-serving bigotry. He's not thinking critically because he doesn't want to know whether his privileged convenient fictions actually hold-up or not. The difference is important because you can teach someone who hasn't done critical thinking how to do that. You can't teach people who continuously refuse to learn. You can only fight them.

@gillscorner794 2 года назад

@@michaelccozens I believe what you refer to is called willful hermaneutical ignorance

@dickybannister5192 2 года назад

well yeah. from the younger generation I've met, even those that did "well" in school haven't got the ability to work through something themselves. they are taught what to do and if they get it, that's it. christ, it's even as bad at university level. they bang on about "hard work" and all that subjective cobblers, but if it doesn't get them sweaty they think its some kind of fake. hard work is not repetitively pouring our the same sh*te day after day. it can and should be the effort that goes into appreciating something fully and figuring out how to do things more efficiently. no wonder we have the worst productivity like, ever. but that is the right wing nutjob aesthetic right back to the Nazis.

@nuttyjawa 2 года назад

@SpamMullet This completely - it is incredibly rare these days, I almost feel that it should become part of Secondary School Curriculum

@adambrickley1119 2 года назад

"If a company can afford it the staff can get a payrise" but argues one of the worlds most successful companies cant afford to increase the UK's worst paid workers wages. So basically in his mind, no one is entitled to a payrise. You can bet he is only concerned about his shares.

@darrenfleming7901 Год назад

"That's between the company and it's workers to work out" Gee that's sounds a whole lot like collective bargaining doesn't it, I wonder what mister caller thinks about that.

@pontifixmax Год назад

He also suggested that government should subsidize pay raises for Amazon employees. Wait until he hears about how taxation works.

@torresalex 2 года назад

James' uncontrolled laugh at the beginning was fabulous.

@markwelch3564 2 года назад

I would normally consider laughing right in someone's face to be rude This one was so, so _so_ deserved!

@nimuehstorm 2 года назад

Absolutely 👍👍👍

@simplesimonhadapie 2 года назад

Its like the line the last guy wasn't a true libertarian it just makes you laugh

@folkme3042 2 года назад

@@markwelch3564 Absolutely not! Definitely the correct response in this case Lol.

@Superior208 2 года назад

And fake

@ChrisTheMoiler 2 года назад

LOL this caller is a complete clown!

@Superior208 2 года назад

The caller was spot on.. James is a entertainer

@ChrisTheMoiler 2 года назад

@@Superior208 Nice try troll

@richardschofield2201 2 года назад

@@ChrisTheMoiler just because David disagrees with you doesn't make him a troll. Best way to get a pay rise is to vote with your feet. If Amazon employees left for better opportunities Amazon would have to pay more. Inflation doesn't dictate wages, markets do.

@ChrisTheMoiler 2 года назад

@@richardschofield2201 what a classic disgusting tory attitude. How much of a sycophant do you have to be to possibly consider defending Amazon here?

@stevenmoore3480 2 года назад

@@richardschofield2201 No he is a troll, did he provide any evidence or even a point? No he did not, he is a troll. You on the other are worse, you proved you lack critical thinking. PS economics is NOT a science, peole have completely conflicting ideas about it, which is the OPPOSITE of science.

@oldstatueface6317 2 года назад

Before Thatcher, corporation tax was over 30% higher than it is now. The Jeff Bezoses of the day were just fine. People like this caller make their mind up first and then try desperately to make reality conform. It seldom does.

@Alex-cw3rz 2 года назад

So true

@JB27888 2 года назад

Yeah and we were known as the sick man of Europe with the slowest growth...please keep up!

@blairrobert3438 2 года назад

@@JB27888 Like now?

@SaguarosPlants 2 года назад

Amazing that someone so dense can take the time out of their day to call into a radio show, to contradict themselves at every turn only to burrow into a hole of inability to defend a point.. did the guy smoke a bowl before calling in?

@Scotland2306 2 года назад

Unnecessary dig at bowl enjoyers. Plenty clever people enjoy a bowl my friend ✌🏻

@jaxcoss5790 2 года назад

@@Scotland2306 😂😂😂

@rojh9351 2 года назад

@@Scotland2306 I think for this caller, it would be a performance enhancing drug

@suzyqualcast6269 2 года назад

The turned himself in.

@alwhyte6533 2 года назад

@@rojh9351 it is for everybody!

@verystripeyzebra 2 года назад

Every amazon employee could have been given $150k, and he'd still be richer than before the pandemic.

@leemorris4481 2 года назад

The caller is a complete plank and deserves every bit of humiliation he gets 😂

@worldtraveller8604 2 года назад

Disagree. The caller deserved to be shown, with respect and courtesy, why his arguments were completely wrong. He did not deserve this seven minutes of unprofessional bullying.

@Kate-ec1uy 2 года назад

@@worldtraveller8604 He did a little bit!!!

@drake7993 2 года назад

@@worldtraveller8604 Has has been shown why they are wrong 100s times over he doesn't care. he deserves to be bullied out of society

@davidwuhrer6704 2 года назад

@@worldtraveller8604 Wouldn't that be humiliating, being made to understand how every word out of his mouth was wrong.

@joshanderson7358 2 года назад

He is a working class Tory.

@pauljohn6877 2 года назад

AHH bless, he thinks Bezos and his ilk are "self made". This is what happens when you swallow the Daily Fail whole.

@jyvben1520 2 года назад

and where did the infrastructure come from upon which they built their success, society, the UK has no power to deal with those tax dodgers !

@andersaskjrgensen5468 2 года назад

also, there would have been no Amazon if not for the employees. It's crazy how one man gets all the credit for one of the biggest companies in the world

@writerinprogress 2 года назад

They're 'self-made' in the same way Donald Trump was 'self-made' -- "My father gave me a small loan of a million dollars..." Didn't hurt that he inherited all of Daddy's millions after he died too.

@artwithmichael5547 2 года назад

If we had no Amazon does this person think no one would buy things?

@mattd5073 2 года назад

More of the workforce in the UK need to unionise. This is the only way we can have our voices heard & stop the exploitation of workers & corporate greed.

@schmuhf 2 года назад

You could go a step further and outright seize the means of production, but people are a bit reluctant nowadays.

@theeniwetoksymphonyorchest7580 2 года назад

Unionisation is the way to achieve real levelling up

@bennkev 2 года назад

@@theeniwetoksymphonyorchest7580 or leveling down

@johndicksonkaraoke2554 2 года назад

Amazon employees workers need to unionize world 🌎 wide.

@tybes99 2 года назад

"you're twisting what I'm saying" "no I'm holding up a mirror mate, it's not my fault you don't like what you're seeing" Truly amazing response.

@Randomvidz657 2 года назад

Amazon can afford to give a million staff members a £1k payrise per year and still making billions upon billions in profits yearly btw.

@Alex-cw3rz 2 года назад

It isn't about envy it is about how the workers are treated, how they are underpayed and the man who does nothing now has so much money he can't even spend it.

@suzyqualcast6269 2 года назад

Nor would ever be able to, in his remaining years. Not knocking the guy, he's sorted it, but - there comes a time.....

@Alex-cw3rz 2 года назад

@@suzyqualcast6269 Sorry?

@davidwuhrer6704 2 года назад

Of course it is envy. Those lowly workers want to live like Bezos and never have to worry about money ever again. Who do they think they are? Imagine, if everyone were rich beyond dreams of avarice, who would do the actual work? More importantly, who would they be doing it for?

@TalesOfWar 2 года назад

@@suzyqualcast6269 Maybe he can try and buy Twitter then back out like his hated enemy Elon?

@maxpowerii7368 2 года назад

Envy would be to want something that belongs to others. The fruits of our labour are ours alone, it does not belong to executives and shareholders in the first place.

@icepee9252 2 года назад

FFS: Paying your employees enough to survive should be the cost of doing business. If a business cannot do that, whether large or small, they shouldn't _be_ in business.

@johnrider5701 2 года назад

This guy shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a telephone or a polling station....

@stevenmoore3480 2 года назад

EXACTLY JR, that is the point here, despite the caller being polite, he proved he is not fit for public comment or voting.

@bennkev 2 года назад

Echoes of the late thirties here, do you think we should put them in ghettos, or maybe camps??????

@TeeBoxTobies 2 года назад

@@bennkev dont be so dramatic.

@davidhayden6116 2 года назад

I'd say quite the opposite actually. People like him should, under the correct scrutiny given by someone like JoB, be put out there as much as possible so that the stupidity of their beliefs can be easily exposed. Much better to have someone like this defending right wing talking points than someone who is actually trained to lie and deceive effectively.

@drummingtildeath 2 года назад

He says they wouldn't have jobs if not for Bezos and shareholders. However, Bezos and the shareholders would not have billions if not for those workers. It's a mutually beneficial business arrangement. Unfortunately, it is WAAAAAY more profitable for the shareholders than it is for the ones actually doing the work.

@suzyqualcast6269 2 года назад

Happen should have stayed with books.

@temphold1 2 года назад

That initial laugh should be a meme.

@mwd331 2 года назад

People ringing in to disagree with James are so rare now it's a real treat to hear it again!

@chatham43 2 года назад

...you can disagree with a caller without humiliating and sneering at him..unprofessional.....

@chickenliver 2 года назад

@@chatham43 treating everyone's terrible views with respect is how we have gotten into this mess in the first place

@maximoo9861 2 года назад

@@chatham43 the caller was out of his depth with JOB, anyone who listens regularly would know his wit is razor sharp and he can literally tear people to shreds til they start questioning their own opinions and arguments, it's what JOB thrives on and many listeners love this particular type of argument, people are free to call in or not call in but they do so at their own risk of being ridiculed

@bennkev 2 года назад

@@maximoo9861 job has a team feeding him through his headset,so it's not him all the time, he's just an arrogant bully,any stand up comedian will tell you the the guy with the mike always wins

@morerobotwarscontent1476 2 года назад

@@maximoo9861 unless they say they're left wing and they don't like Keir starmer then James has a breakdown. Lost a lot of respect for JoB over the last few years.

@andymccurdy5029 2 года назад

Amazon raises prices to cope with inflation then says cant pay you more cos of inflation...

@andymccurdy5029 2 года назад

@@Craig121000 yes they did amazon is a subscription service an they raised the price from 7.99 to 8.99 last month the shops on amazon arnt run owned or have set prices by amazon an can charge what they like. A simple goggle search could have saved you this public embrassment.

@andymccurdy5029 2 года назад

@@Craig121000 well troll Slayer amazon dont set them prices the studio that owns them do. Becuase amazon dont own the shops. So dang it just got worse for you when your defense shows you dont have a clue how amazon works but still felt able to pipe up.

@andymccurdy5029 2 года назад

@@Craig121000 no i can. Am am happy you can to.

@Hattonbank 2 года назад

Look Troll Slayer, quit when you are well behind, no point arguing a losing battle.

@pavement422 2 года назад

Was he actually suggesting that the government should subsidise Amazon so they can pay higher wages?

@AdventFate 2 года назад

Yeah, I never thought I would hear something like that in my life. He thinks Amazon needs help to pay more... WHAT!? 🤯

@writerinprogress 2 года назад

They already ARE subsidising Amazon - with all of that tax they've been happily allowing Amazon *not* to pay FOR YEARS.

@massinakmin8340 2 года назад

Yes socialism for amazon.

@tonybullion2537 2 года назад

But the government DOES subsidise Amazon. The low wage they pay employees mean that the employees can obtain benefit from Social Services to enable them to pay rent, put food on the table and even cover cost of travel to and from their place of work. Notwithstanding the fact that the low rate of tax Amazon pays into the Treasury coffers is laughable!

@doppies2000 2 года назад

@@tonybullion2537 that is the "New Normal" Business Model where Mult-billion Multi-national Corporations do not pay their Staff properly, do not pay their Taxes properly, make Record Profits, and Government must keep their Workers alive... with Tax Money that they Companies don't pay ! henceforth why Governments across the Globe are running out of Funds !

@BenCG 2 года назад

"Without Amazon's wealth, those jobs wouldn't be there." - Yes, but the opposite is also true. It's not even a chicken and egg situation. Amazon's wealth could not possibly exist without its workers.

@baronvonlimbourgh1716 2 года назад

Without amazon there would be 100s of small businesses with all kinds of jobs needed to be done in them.

@stevenmoore3480 2 года назад

or OUR infrastructure

@elcristoph7380 2 года назад

well given amazon plans to automate most of its jobs away.. Id say Amazon can exist without its workers..

@kanedNunable 2 года назад

@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 all paying tax.

@baronvonlimbourgh1716 2 года назад

@@kanedNunable and giving out proper contracts and treating their employees like human beings.

@sludgefiend666 2 года назад

After about 3 and a half minutes I'm thinking "stop James, he's already dead!" 🤣 Please everyone give this brilliant, brilliant man 3hrs of your day 🙏🏼