<story><title>Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-is-ahead-in-union-vote-as-tallying-set-to-resume-11617960604</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>psychometry</author><text>We need better education so that people stop voting against their own self-interest, in union elections and generally.</text></item><item><author>ActorNightly</author><text>USA needs better education so that people understand economics and labor markets, so they wont calling paid positions indentured servitude.</text></item><item><author>fartcannon</author><text>What a tragic way to frame it. The USA (and all the world governments) need to take care of it&amp;#x27;s poor people better so they don&amp;#x27;t have to choose indentured servitude over poverty.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Added the bit about all the world governments</text></item><item><author>aarongray</author><text>Speaking as someone who lives adjacent to Bessemer but who does not work at Amazon, you need to understand that Bessemer is a dying city, a slum. These were the best paying jobs that many of these workers had had in their entire lives, it is no wonder that a majority of them decided not to bite the hand that was feeding them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gruez</author><text>...or maybe they just have differences in opinion to you?</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-is-ahead-in-union-vote-as-tallying-set-to-resume-11617960604</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>psychometry</author><text>We need better education so that people stop voting against their own self-interest, in union elections and generally.</text></item><item><author>ActorNightly</author><text>USA needs better education so that people understand economics and labor markets, so they wont calling paid positions indentured servitude.</text></item><item><author>fartcannon</author><text>What a tragic way to frame it. The USA (and all the world governments) need to take care of it&amp;#x27;s poor people better so they don&amp;#x27;t have to choose indentured servitude over poverty.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Added the bit about all the world governments</text></item><item><author>aarongray</author><text>Speaking as someone who lives adjacent to Bessemer but who does not work at Amazon, you need to understand that Bessemer is a dying city, a slum. These were the best paying jobs that many of these workers had had in their entire lives, it is no wonder that a majority of them decided not to bite the hand that was feeding them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway0a5e</author><text>You mean like all those inner city women who constantly vote for gun control despite easy access to hot lead being the best way they can protect themselves from violence?&lt;p&gt;Or are we talking about the hicks that vote against government healthcare and social safety nets despite the fact that they would themselves benefit?&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Voting against their interest&amp;quot; is just how the ivory tower crowd derides the poor for sticking to their ideological guns even when it doesn&amp;#x27;t benefit them.  The poor have opinions and beliefs and making sacrifices in the name of their beliefs does not make them stupid.</text></comment>