I’ve Read the Government’s Arguments to Screw Amazon Workers and I’m Furious

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51. People have died in Amazon Warehouses

The warehouses represent an utter failure to protect labor in the U.S., and there needs to be union uprising there now.

Furthermore read this article:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119769/amazons-monopoly-must-be-broken-radical-plan-tech-giant

In conjunction with this article:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/sharing-economy-great-consumers-cost-workers/

And imagine your future in a gig economy that has been largely reshaped by Amazon's economic imperatives. This is a company that has yet to turn a profit - their strategies will only become more "lean" and driven by the smallest margins of profit. And they will continue to gobble up more and more of the online shopping space. Amazon is the WalMart of the Internet.

Meanwhile, as most vendors are forced to crawl to Amazon and make pennies for it, Bezos cherrypicks the elite to reinforce their internal networking at a super-exclusive "campfire" event:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/technology/a-writerly-chill-at-bezos-fire-.html

The Little People are told we are "networking" when we meet up with other unemployed people for weekly "job clubs" sponsored by our local civic employment initiatives. Le sigh.

Fight the Amazon Warehouses now. Before they become Amazon Workhouses and you are forced into one.