That's a simplification. Amazon warehouses ARE oppressive. And there's nothing superficially wrong with automating the picking and packing of boxes. The prob

That's a simplification. Amazon warehouses ARE oppressive. And there's nothing superficially wrong with automating the picking and packing of boxes. The problems come later, and it's not Amazon's "fault" but rather a much larger problem that eventually we'll all have to deal with: what happens when "enough" people get involuntarily shoved out of the workforce, with vanishingly remote prospects of securing other paying work?