For anybody else who missed the context, "Kantor and Streitfeld" refers to this NYT story: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling

For anybody else who missed the context, "Kantor and Streitfeld" refers to this NYT story: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-w... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10065243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10065243 And my 2c: an acquaintance of mine who was a director at Amazon summarizes their corporate philosophy as "people are disposable". I've never seen any evidence to contradict this.