Post made for information gathering concerning the material conditions of Amazon, how it profits, etc.

  • Raton_en_Criss
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    -One of the ways for Amazon to make a profit is by pushing their workers limit and draining every ounce of money that they have in them. If the worker is not doing a ‘‘good’’ enough job they fire them and Amazon fire their worker by the company’s standards which are really hard to obtain and even so they can be a health risk to the worker that doesn’t get fired. Thus their working conditions are awful.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/11/amazon-warehouse-reports-show-worker-injuries/602530/

    https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/16/20696154/amazon-prime-day-2019-strike-warehouse-workers-inhumane-conditions-the-rate-productivity

    -Amazon is also destructive for the poorer area in the United-States mostly were unemployment rates are high, this is because their working condition as I said are really bad and the benefit coming from working at an Amazon warehouse mostly comes after working there for at least one year but, most workers in those areas are only getting jobs that are seasonal thus making it not worth all the difficulty that are produced by this job. Also, most workers at these warehouses don’t have a stable/fixed working schedule and they have long days of works. And to add to this most workers are hardly living with their wages.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/02/amazon-warehouses-poor-cities/552020/

    -Also, Amazon is not paying taxes (or almost none) and even if the news channel that I linked are not super, I doubt that they

    https://itep.org/amazon-in-its-prime-doubles-profits-pays-0-in-federal-income-taxes/

    In short, Amazon is/does this (from what I wrote in this comment) :

    -Milking their worker for money

    -Forcing them to do extremely hard work to keep their job

    -Making their worker have health risks at their work place.

    -Firing their employe for ‘‘under’’ performing

    -Employing poor people and using benefits that they probably won’t get as a carrot to bait them.

    -Most employes don’t have a fixed working schedule.

    -Most workers have a hard life with their wages.

    -not paying taxes.

    edit: small edits also, feedback is really apreciated.

  • Camarada ForteOPMA
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    I’ll keep adding information by editting this comment

    The Details About the CIA’s Deal With Amazon

    Who’s Using Amazon Web Services? [2020 Update] If this link is accurate, the number of capitalist companies using AWS is staggering:

    Aon, Adobe, Airbnb, Alcatel-Lucent, AOL, Acquia, AdRoll, AEG, Alert Logic, Autodesk, Bitdefender, BMW, British Gas, Baidu, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Canon, Capital One, Channel 4, Chef, Citrix, Coinbase, Comcast, Coursera, Disney, Docker, Dow Jones, European Space Agency, ESPN, Expedia, Financial Times, FINRA, General Electric, GoSquared, Guardian News & Media, Harvard Medical School, Hearst Corporation, Hitachi, HTC, IMDb, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, International Civil Aviation Organization, ITV, iZettle, Johnson & Johnson, JustGiving, JWT, Kaplan, Kellogg’s, Lamborghini, Lonely Planet, Lyft, Made(dot)com, McDonalds, NASA, NASDAQ OMX, National Rail Enquiries, National Trust, Netflix, News International, News UK, Nokia, Nordstrom, Novartis, Pfizer, Philips, Pinterest, Quantas, Reddit, Sage, Samsung, SAP, Schneider Electric, Scribd, Securitas Direct, Siemens, Slack, Sony, SoundCloud, Spotify, Square Enix, Tata Motors, The Weather Company, Twitch, Turner Broadcasting, Ticketmaster, Time Inc., Trainline, Ubisoft, UCAS, Unilever, US Department of State, USDA Food and Nutrition Service, UK Ministry of Justice, Vodafone Italy, WeTransfer, WIX, Xiaomi, Yelp, Zynga and Zillow.

    Amazon DoD compliance

    AWS enables defense organizations and their business associates to create secure environments to process, maintain, and store DoD data. … The infrastructure, governance, and operating environment of AWS have been assessed and authorized through the FedRAMP and DoD authorization processes.

    Amazon Union-Busting propaganda directed to workers (hot shit)

  • @PorkrollPosadist
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    54 years ago

    I imagine one of the first steps for this project would be assembling a list of books and literature on the subject. Any company or institution as ubiquitous as Amazon will likely have dozens of books written about it, with authors ranging from sycophants to muckrakers. If we get a dozen or so people on board, we can organize something almost like a book club, but instead of reading the same book, we can split off and read different books covering different aspects of the same subject and assemble our knowledge. Come up with assignments on a biweekly-monthly basis, split off into focus groups, develop our understanding, and come together to assemble a novel and comprehensive analyses on a regular basis.

    It is too late for me to get started on this tonight, but I will start looking for literature and report back when I find something interesting to dive into.