What Amazon Does to Poor Cities
I think amazon can come up with a way to make the job less stressful and all that, but I think the articles point that amazon comes in and replaces jobs that were unionized basically misses the point. Over the past 20 years
tons of factories shut down because they realized they could get the same thing built someplace else for far cheaper — in many cases unions had helped the people get paid more and more for the same-ish work for years. So the delta between what the factory in Mexico or China would cost could be massive. So in the case of amazon they are not a factory and they can’t really be moved, but they can decide to contract out their fulfillment to another company who is willing to do it and reset the game by bringing in a new workforce that gets paid less again. So it would seem like the smart thing to do would be to keep the pressure on amazon and target specific things they don’t like, but getting unionized and then demanding way more pay and easier conditions will basically drive amazon to contracting out the fulfillment centers to somebody else and you are back to where you started..