I always wonder if people complained about stores when we started to get the merchandise out of the warehouse ourselves.

Something like, “why isn’t there a clerk getting the groceries on my list for me, I don’t work here, I shouldn’t have to go into the back and get my own shit.”

I prefer bagging my own shit anyways when I go shopping. I don’t break shit and at least in my area it looks like they disabled the weight shit or set the tolerances higher so I’m not constantly told to bag something I already did or getting told I bagged something without scanning .

Now it’s pretty good actually.

I did say fuck Nestle, didn’t I? I’m not really trying to advocate for them just from reading that excerpt I would be interested to know how much the company and its reps really knew about the drinking water situation.

Like, I’m very certain they didn’t do anything to help or to combat the problem, just curious if it was something they knew about and how it was handled. I can say for sure they’re evil and should have helped. It’s just I am thinking about who knew what and how much.

I guess it’s more of a thought and less of a defending them because I am not a big nestle fan. Although I do love their chocolate milk mix, reminds me of my childhood so I occasionally buy it because I’m a bad guy.

To play (actual) devil’s advocate … Is it Nestle’s fault the drinking water was unclean that was mixed with the formula?

That’s where I would say the whole, who’s responsible part of the equation gets fucky. To be clear, nestle should have done more to combat this and not have pushed formula feeding where they knew the water could be bad.

I’m not a fan of them by any means and would definitely need to read more and definitely know they’re evil (fuck I mean I’m pretty sure every large enough corp is evil, hell most of the small ones too) but it still gives me pause when it’s presented.

Just so I’m unequivocal here - nestle is bad and fuck them.

This is like the difference between normal and right. Like I know a ton of people normally search for answers by putting full questions in. With the advent of LLMs and AI being thrown into everything asking full questions starts to make more sense.

For actual good results using a search engine, for sure what you said is better.

Yeah, it’s called employee rights and strong laws. Those exist overseas, most European countries are good examples. The USA is ass backwards when it comes to our employee protections.

As an example, in many countries they need to give a reason for terminating your employment - pay out x amount of time depending on the reasons given and since your healthcare is NOT tied to employment you don’t need to worry about that going away. That’s not even discussing their paid vacation time or other legal protections.

Basically, you can’t just fire people for some janky made up reason. As you can imagine this also leads to better hiring practices because the companies can’t just cut a person out of nowhere so they need to make sure they’re hiring good folks from the get go. Plus it means more job security and that the companies do a better job forecasting labor demand since they can’t just hire a bunch and fire whatever percentage as a rule of thumb.

Anyways, I don’t know if we would ever have a chance as Americans, but I can tell you what you’re asking literally already exists.

I want another Teddy Roosevelt in office.

Fuck man even after trust busting, those companies were then and still are stupid big and powerful and maddeningly enriching to the 1%

At least we have shiny toys now built on the backs of global labor exploitation. That’s cool.

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