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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
What are you basing your claim that American corporations treat their employees worse than Canadian ones?
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Reality.
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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
Canadian workers benefit from better labour laws and universal healthcare, but that doesn't mean they are treated any better by their employers, it means their employer doesn't have the option to not provide those things.
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Ultimately, it's cultural. Canada has more stringent labour laws because Canadians have demonstrated, through legislation and common practice, that we value those minimum standards. Americans do not value them as highly. And Amazon treats its employees far worse that other American tech companies do. There are a lot of highly skilled and ambitious Americans who will forfeit pretty much everything else in their life to work 70 or 80 hours a week for a company they regard as the best in the sector. Also, piles of money. Fewer Canadians are willing to make that extreme trade-off.