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They’ve asked that people honor the picket line by not engaging with Washington Post content on Dec. 7:
They’ve asked that people honor the picket line by not engaging with Washington Post content on Dec. 7:
Importantly: the family which owned the Washington Post during the time when they made that shift has since sold to Jeff Bezos. The Post could pay journalists very nicely out of his pocket change.
Who owns the company is irrelevant in the fight for fair wages and working conditions.
There’s no need for a business owner to pay employees out of their own pockets, that’s not a sustainable business, regardless of whether it’s Bezos or just a garage owner with two employees. The Post, as a business runs profitably just fine on its own, with more than enough revenue to pay their employees fairly.
He could turn it into something like the Guardian, where it runs on an endowment. And it would be a trivial expense for him, with money he can’t actually spend on himself over the course of his life.