Amazon Workers Are Today's Coal Miners

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Amazon workers are today's coal miners. "You'd think the question of what activities count as part of the workday would've been solved by now, 70 years later....This conflict at the heart of the case clarifies why the issue won't go away. It's not just that the struggle between wage-labor and capital is eternal, though that's part of the equation. It's that there’s a fundamental tension between our intuitive sense of what is fair and the logic of free markets, in which both sides are assumed to agree voluntarily. Choosing between the two is a challenge relived on every difficult policy question. Whatever the Supreme Court decides today, 70 years from now, our grandchildren will probably still be fighting about it." Noah Feldman in Bloomberg View