[sergefaguet]

An extremely efficient and competent corporation doing everything it can to deliver goods cheaper and faster to hundreds of millions of people while creating value for tens of millions of shareholders? And now it has more and more impact running social services too?

How dare they do this travesty without democratic oversight. Clearly the best way forward is to regulate them so that they are on a level playing field with other democratically overseen government services.

[beckman466]

How dare workers ask to not be treated like shit! /s

You do know Amazon has been caught union busting right? I'm not so sure what your definition of democracy is when workers can't voice their concerns.

[sergefaguet]

Interesting. I must have missed the point when unions became about voicing concerns. Last I recall, creating unions is an attempt at monopolizing labor to extort the employer. When this tactic is applied to any other factor of production it is called a “cartel” and engaged in “market manipulation.”

How surprising that employers who pay above-market wages do not wish to be extorted further. All the modern propaganda says they have to welcome this benevolent expression of democratic freedoms!

[SigmundA]

Sounds just like the East India Company.

[oblio]

What happens when the largest employer in the company town shuts the warehouse or whatever town?

I guess the town shuts down, right?

[xyzzyz]

No, it goes back to square one. Amazon is not literally building these towns. These towns have been there before. Then Amazon came, and made job market better. If it leaves, it won’t be worse off than it was on the first place.

[rcstank]

Why is that a bad thing? People are smart. They’ll figure something out just like humans have done for centuries.