Toyota used to host free car giveaways and give workers 12% bonuses. They promised workers would "retire as millionaires." Now Toyota workers can’t even affo...
  • AGD4@programming.dev
    89·
    10 months ago

    at 0:05: “I totaled a car last week and I can’t afford to replace it”. I feel like there is a bit of undue entitlement in that statement. Should any worker be able to comfortably replace a car that they destroyed?

    I have no love for Toyota or any other mega corp, and I think the bigger issue in this article is the very first statement in the interview: “I spent three and a half years building cars and I can’t afford a home yet”. That is a big problem, but I wouldn’t attribute that to greedy corporate employers exclusively.

    • umbrella@lemmy.ml
      112·
      10 months ago

      I wouldn’t attribute that to greedy corporate employers exclusively.

      I would, maybe not exclusively but have you seen how much the investor class profit and hoard?

      • AGD4@programming.dev
        21·
        10 months ago

        I would

        But not exclusively.

        You can point the finger to individual and foreign investors, but also to government policies (or lack thereof) that make that possible.

        • umbrella@lemmy.ml
          1·
          10 months ago

          governments are on investors’ pockets too and i think this is the biggest problem

    • the_third@feddit.de
      91·
      10 months ago

      Should any worker be able to comfortably replace a car that they destroyed?

      Yes, as everything around being a worker is designed for having a car. Should people be punished by loss of income and healthcare for, we don’t know what it was, a lapse of attention, black ice in a corner, you name it?