Worked at Amazon twice, once part-time for a year, the other full-time in-between jobs. The metrics thing is interesting, and they've managed to put a number o

Worked at Amazon twice, once part-time for a year, the other full-time in-between jobs. The metrics thing is interesting, and they've managed to put a number on pretty much everything, so they can adjust for conditions and the available pool of workers by just shifting numbers around. Still surprised at injury statistics --- both places I worked at took safety quite seriously and I never felt that management ignored it or was unconcerned, quite the opposite --- the one change I would have made would have been having folks volunteer for operating the powered equipment, and only requiring folks to do it if there weren't enough volunteers. Wrote up a bit on this on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/dmnuts/53mamazon_fulfillment_center_warehouse_worker/ https://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/dmnuts/53mamazon_fulfi... The bottom line is every day in the world there's a certain amount of work which needs to be done, and we as a society need to work out who does it, for what compensation, and how we are going to handle the folks for whom there is no work. There's a bunch of sad science fiction on this: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 but not much reasoned discussion or policy-making. Capital continues to seek the lowest points for employment so as to maximize profit, and since folks want their 401Ks and investment portfolios to do well, most folks look the other way. Similarly, it's hard for folks to complain about rents others are paying when a home is the biggest investment owned by most homeowners and rents are driven by real estate valuation.