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The reaction to this specific clip is merely a synecdoche of the reaction to Amazon's labor practices writ large. If you were following the news about the union
by uoaei 3y ago
The reaction to this specific clip is merely a synecdoche of the reaction to Amazon's labor practices writ large. If you were following the news about the unionization efforts at Amazon warehouses at all you would know the lengths to which Amazon makes their employees' lives painful. Extremely high injury rates compared to other warehouse jobs, the complete dehumanization experienced in the automated system of quantifying "operational excellence" or whatever euphemism they want to call "invasive tracking and computer-defined evaluation", etc. And if you have friends who work in Amazon corporate, you would know the culture there is generally (though there are exceptions) one that encourages petty politicking, ruthless subjugation to inappropriate KPIs, and the negging-overwork-burnout pipeline engendered by the management style encouraged from above.
Amazon succeeds by extracting ruthlessly in all domains. Generally when people understand the scope of these issues, it's only the Land acolytes and the psychopaths who consider Amazon's rise as "progress" unqualified.