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Basically no one has been made poorer by the existence of Amazon, a company that mainly sells cheap consumer goods (or cloud compute) to the masses. The small n
by JuniperMesos 8mo ago
Basically no one has been made poorer by the existence of Amazon, a company that mainly sells cheap consumer goods (or cloud compute) to the masses. The small number of people who have been made poorer by the existence of Amazon are people in the upper 5% or so of American wealth who owned a consumer-facing business that got out-competed by Amazon, and by definition that means that a much larger number of generally-poorer people benefitted because Amazon fulfilled their wants and needs better than the other business did.
- FpUser 8mo agoHere is one: https://clje.law.harvard.edu/app/uploads/2025/10/Amazon-Drives-Low-Wages-The-Unraveling-of-Workplace-Protections-for-Delivery-Drivers.pdf https://clje.law.harvard.edu/app/uploads/2025/10/Amazon-Driv... lots of other if you care to search