I think evil is too strong a word for Amazon, I think benzos is one of the nicer billionaires but I have heard the horror stories from Amazon warehouses.
Comment on If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything
magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Hey! Great idea! Let’s make all of the internet rely on one service from one evil company! What could go wrong?
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Amazon essentially killed local boilstones and then used the proceeds to become a massive megaconglomerate only challangeable by alphabet, apple, and meta in their sheer capability to control media flow.
They have spies in the form of Alexa enabled IOT devices basically everywhere. They also have the Ring camera. Recently they have stayed they will share data from Ring cameras with Palantir.
Amazon is insidious. Its evil is quiet in its spread.
The sheer size of Amazon, along with their business model, means they must employ vast swaths of people. In the US alone, over 1M people are employed by Amazon. Amazon plans to lay off half of them in the next 8 years while they shift to a robotic workforce.
These “too big to fail” companies are not evil out of some malaise for humanity. They are evil out of a cavalier disinterest in anything other than increasing the size of their hoards.
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I don’t think they killed local bookstores. I think your average person is just lazy, and publishers were too greedy to allow the audiobook to be included with the purchase of a book.
The fact that they employ a million people is insane, I didn’t realize they were that large. I think laying off half the workforce to replace with robotics is not in acceptable but good. I have been working my entire life and it’s a huge waste of my life, and I look forward to robotic automation.
The thing is, you can’t stop progress just because you miss the way things were. Things are always going to progress. The future can be cool as well.
As far as benzos and stuff, maybe the Democrats shouldn’t be so shitty to everyone who is slightly different from they are. Running a business is something most people just don’t understand. The standard isn’t what you wish were true so much as it’s what you have to do in order to compete. Capitalism is a race to the bottom, the victory of the ruthless, it’s a bad game. Until we get a better economic system, we are kind of stuck with mega corporations. It’s not a choice. It’s what people vote for along with mass surveillance, and many other terrible laws. If you want to hate someone, go hate groups like focus on the family because they are the ones who ruin your society more than anyone and distract people from economic issues by getting these assholes elected who despise the idea of a social culture.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Nice billionaire is an oxymoron.
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
If you are going to hate someone at least hate them for a good reason. I’m not saying he is an angel or anything, just that he is nice and has less shitty views than many of the billionaires now.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
He isn’t nice! He wants to replace all staff with robots, set targets so high that people have to piss in bottles and pays minimum wage which helps him get so rich.
A nice person would have stopped longer before getting this large. He’s a monster. Maybe not in the traditional sense, but he contributes to a monstrous system.
grahamja@reddthat.com 2 days ago
Typical Amazon undersells everyone else to remove competition. Then after everyone has gone under reminds you it is a terrible idea. Hopefully we see businesses get burnt more and determine it is better to self host, or even better yet not need half their services on “the cloud” anyways.