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Compensated at the expense of whom though?

The taxpayers? Sure, there’s an argument for reparations and pumping money into forcing systemic change.

College students competing for a limited number of slots to schools? I’m less convinced of this, it’s a zero-sum game where if you’re admitting one person you’re denying others from that slot.

IMO there’s probably better ways you could incentivize colleges to aim for a diverse student body that would be more equitable. The goal should equality of opportunity, not equality of outcomes.

I’m 100% remote and intend to stay that way, but there’s definitely a subset of workers for whom in-office is better - either because they don’t have the space at home for a dedicated office, they work better in an office environment, they have small kids at home who would interrupt work, and so on.

The problem is really that companies don’t seem to want to give people a choice to do what works best for them, their position, or their team. Where it’s possible to WFH that should be the default offering.

The fact that handlers can fake a “hit” wherever and whenever they want is the entire point, and also the reason they resist moving over to technical solutions. Those technologies also come with logging, which is another point against them as far as cops are concerned.

It’s always been about control and cruelty.

The complaint is likely to focus on challenges to Amazon Prime, Amazon rules that the FTC says block lower prices on competing websites, and policies the FTC believes force merchants to use Amazon’s logistics and advertising services, according to some of the people.

Relevant part of the article - they’re not going near AWS or the entertainment/filming side of things, just the retail side it looks like.

Even if Amazon loses every part of a lawsuit like this it won’t materially affect their bottom line, so the headline seems like clickbait to me.