• @[email protected]
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    4 days ago

    Orphan-crushing machine refuses to accelerate crushing orphans is a now feel good story yet again.

    • @Shard
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      494 days ago

      This false dichotomy of all or nothing merely benefits the status quo.

      A small improvement is better than no improvement and all progress has to start with a first step, somewhere, somehow.

      • sp3ctr4l
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        But this isn’t a small improvement.

        The DEI policy was already in place.

        When that got enacted was the improvement.

        This is just not a step backward.

        A step forward would be something like… we’ve restructered into a democratically run co-op, in a tri cameral structure, your costco membership now grants you a vote in something approximating the US House of Representatives, employees now all get votes in some higher authority body approximating the Senate, and then the board of directors acts as a multi person executive branch.

      • @[email protected]
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        Costco is slightly less egregious than its counterparts, but it is still very much a part of the system and went along with the insane profiteering price increases on essentials.

        • @[email protected]
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          Costco: Has higher wages and better benefits than competitors, pushes back to keep their DEI policies to protect their most vulnerable employees

          You: they’re evil

          • @shneancy
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            124 days ago

            the thing is, the system in which we have to function forces corporations and people to do evil things, even against their intention or will. being good means sooner or later becoming bankrupt as now you’re working against the system and losing profits.

            as another person mentioned - if their suppliers artificially raise prices, whether Costco wants it or not, they have to raise them as well. the market just forced them to do something that limited the amount of things an individual can purchase with their paycheque (as we know, salaries haven’t been exactly keeping up with inflation), and pushed more people into poverty as a result

            no corporation is good, and very few are still fighting against becoming fully evil. and as you can see, the fights get more ridiculous every year, the bar of being “good” keeps getting lower

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              Doesn’t Costco negotiate pretty brutally to secure favorable terms for its purchasing and that ostensibly reflects in the prices members eventually benefit from? I’ve heard that multiple times and I can’t really criticize Costco since I have noticed they really haven’t seemed to have artifically price-gouged or have barely even raised prices on much or what I’ve come to depend on and expect from them

              Think I saw the purchasing negotating rooms, looked like a police station. Very intimidating lol, glad I’m on the member side of that one

          • @horse_battery_staple
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            Your argument would hold more weight if Costco encouraged or even complied with unions. Just because Costco is making sure it won’t be the subject of discrimination lawsuits does not make them the good guy here. I don’t care how many free samples and $1.50 hotdogs you get.

            Also that’s a pretty reductive take on what @[email protected] posted. They were merely highlighting that the larger system in which Costco operates is exploitive. Not that Costco themselves were inherently evil.

            https://teamster.org/2024/12/costco-refuses-to-accept-98-of-teamsters-proposals/

            https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/teamsters-file-unfair-labor-practice-charges-against-costco/

            https://jacobin.com/2024/01/costco-workers-unionization-teamsters

            • @[email protected]
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              14 days ago

              I was looking to see if I wasn’t hallucinating.

              So, they’re standing by their DEI policies. Good. They’re still anti-union. Bad.

              I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Costco is the least scummy corporation, but they’re still a corporation.

        • SuiXi3D
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          They’re a business at the end of the day. If their suppliers raise their prices, they have no choice but to do the same in order to not go broke overnight. It sucks for everyone, and nobody can avoid it.