Interestingly Brad just proved Tim Bray's point by stroking his own ego and only talking about processes that Amazon is introducing in response to COVID-19 - in

Interestingly Brad just proved Tim Bray's point by stroking his own ego and only talking about processes that Amazon is introducing in response to COVID-19 - instead of talking about the worker being fired for raising concerns about their workplace conditions. Even better is scrolling down to the comments section and seeing all the managers comment about how great they are. It's like an Amazon version of VC's congratulating themselves. This one paragraph bugged me quite a bit. "You can allow time off and leaves of absence. You can commit to taking care of employees if they do get sick, regardless of where they caught the virus. These are all things Amazon did almost immediately. But you can’t entirely eliminate the fear and concerns that we all share. ". You could try not firing people when they raise real concerns about dieing for the cause of raising Amazon's market cap. That'd be a good start. Next Amazon should recognize the power dynamic they've created with this firing and work to destroy it. It's too bad we can't see the memos Tim talked about with the disgusting comments about the workers. That would put the nail in the coffin as the 'distinguished engineers' of Amazon duke it out. Lastly, props to Tim for not stroking his ego when he wrote his post. Boo to Brad for stroking his ego when talking about respecting low-skilled workers as humans.