&gt; I think that what you are saying is that these people are so miserable that they have no other choice but to take the rare jobs that they are offered, no matter how terrible. If so, I totally agree with you.<p>I would say they&#x27;re in such need as they would take any job offered them, misery notwithstanding, but you&#x27;re 80% with me yes.<p>&gt; I would just like to take a moment to wonder at the shitness of our world where the best we can do for those who have been deprived of everything is to ask them to break their backs so the extravagantly wealthy can make a bit more money.<p>I kind of agree with you here. I don&#x27;t think Bezos is up in his office masturbating vigorously to camera footage of homeless people walking into Amazon warehouses to work. He&#x27;s not hiring them because he wants to make money, in all likelihood most of them will need a fair bit more training than regular blue collar workers who are between jobs or people looking to earn some extra money, and I&#x27;m also willing to bet that a homeless person would be fairly less reliable in terms of showing up for their shifts on time if only for the fact that they literally have nothing including a car. Amazon probably does want to help, and they want to enough that they&#x27;re willing to overlook the problems that come with hiring homeless people.<p>Now we can argue all day about how Amazon could afford to put those people in 5 star hotels for the entire Christmas season and it probably wouldn&#x27;t hurt them, but that&#x27;s not the point. They&#x27;re a company, not a charity. They don&#x27;t need to hire these people at all if they don&#x27;t want to (and if they didn&#x27;t, no one would even be arguing about this in the first place) so forgive me if I&#x27;m not willing to throw them under the bus for at least trying to help.