Yes, The System Is Rigged Against The Working Class

By Jim Hightower Photos: YouTube Screenshots A lot of working stiffs today say the system is rigged to keep them from getting ahead. One thing that might make them feel like that is this: The system is rigged against them! Consider some very hard workers busting their butts going up and down our residential streets – Amazon’s army of delivery drivers, hauling tons of packages right to our doorsteps. Their exhausting, corporate-mandated hustle is a key source of Amazon’s enormous profits – making Amazon boss Jeff Bezos a cartoonishly-rich global playboy. Yet Bezos – who’s entire career has been built on rigging the system against employees, competitors, and taxpayers – even refuses to acknowledge that those hundreds of thousands of drivers work for him. He disavows them because many are attempting to unionize over the autocratic and abusive working conditions he imposes on them – including having such dehumanizing delivery schedules that drivers can’t even stop to pee. So, they commonly carry bottles so they can “go on the go.” Not my problem, says Jeff, pointing to a perverse, corporate-written gotcha in American labor law. It rigs the system by letting Amazon contract with thousands of local front groups called...