We all love the convenience of Amazon!
We all sit on the toilet while streaming our favorite content while we buy things we don’t
need with money we don’t have in order to impress people we don’t like.
But all that convenience does come at a cost!
For this list, All Things Top 5 looks at Top 5 Ways Amazon Is Destroying the World!
In the end, shouldn’t we all be suspicious why Jeff Bezos is so eager to leave the planet
in a bulbous phallic shaped rocket?
Number 5 Amazon Prime!
Amazon’s signature Prime delivery, where it promises to deliver millions of products
such as video games, appliances, furniture, food, and an assortment of adult toys within
1 to 2 days, is slowly destroying the planet.
More than 100 million people already pay $119 annually to receive Amazon Prime’s free
and fast shipping; expediting that service and expanding purchasing options will likely
keep customers hooked on Amazon’s services.
But cutting delivery times — as appealing as that sounds to buyers and Amazon — will
likely come at the expense of the environment.
Most courier services prioritize deliveries according to where they’re delivered, so
that they are delivering as many packages as possible in a single run.
Amazon, on the other hand, prioritize deliveries according to their due date, which means drivers
often have to deliver individual packages to the same area multiple times a week.
This in turn makes Amazon spend more on fuel, drive more miles, emit more carbon emissions,
and produce more packaging waste than any other courier service.
That’s enough cardboard to build your own Amazon Fulfillment Center with just 1 week
of orders.
Number 4 Political Interference!
If there’s one thing that corporations all have in common is that they really hate paying
taxes!
How dare the government take their money and waste it on things like paved roads, bridges
that don’t collapse, and schools!
That’s some socialist-Nazi-communist propaganda!
That money is much better spent in the form of stock buybacks, executive bonuses, and
better working conditions for their employees.
Just kidding about that last one!
Amazon is such a global behemoth, that it doesn’t need to waste time opening shady
offshore accounts.
If Amazon doesn’t like how a state is taxing it, they have enough money to bribe….
I mean influence to sway an election.
In 2019, ahead of a Seattle city council election, Amazon donated $1.5 million to an organization
called Civil Alliance for a Sound Economy or CASE for short.
In return, CASE supported seven pro-business candidates who would have been less likely
to hold Amazon accountable for anything.
Fortunately, the electorate saw through this, and Amazon’s hand-picked candidates failed
to win a majority.
Just two of the seven candidates endorsed by Amazon and other companies through the
chamber’s Super Pac emerged winners, one of them an incumbent.
Number 3 Big Brother!
Big Brother is watching you!
Or, more like, Big Amazon is watching you!
One thing is clear, Amazon has an ever-growing surveillance network, and it IS watching all
of us!
Turns out we didn’t need a tyrannical government after all.
All we needed was a corporation to make spying more convenient.
In 2018, Amazon bought the “smart doorbell” company Ring for a cool $1 billion, making
it the company’s biggest purchase.
It was reported that Amazon’s home surveillance brand had partnered with more than 400 police
departments across the country.
According to Motherboard, police officers can request homeowners’ surveillance footage
through Ring.
In a statement, Ring said that law enforcement requests must be tied to an active investigation,
and though the owner’s consent is required, a warrant isn’t necessary.
However, Ring promised that its customers would always have a choice in what information
the company shares with law enforcement.
It used to be the case that only states, such as Nevada, were allowed to secretly film people
without their consent.
Now, it’s the consumer who is doing the Orwellian legwork for our country’s law
enforcement.
Amazon will most likely face the heavy consequence of…..well, probably nothing.
They’re not doing anything you didn’t agree to when you clicked “Agree” in the
terms of service that you didn’t read.
Number 2 Piss Bottles!
Like the Borg in Star Trek, Amazon demands that their employees adopt a hive mentality.
Until Jeff Bezos creates a fully robotic workforce that doesn’t have to urinate or defecate,
he still has to stick with hiring humans and their damn tendency to use the bathroom.
One survey found that 74% of Amazon warehouse workers avoid bathroom breaks in order to
prevent disciplinary action.
Some workers were forced to walk the entire 700,000 square foot warehouse to get to two
bathrooms that served the entire four-story, 1,200 employee workplace.
Just to get to a bathroom at Amazon is a quarter mile, 10-minute walk one way.
Amazon is known to track how fast its warehouse workers can pick and package items from its
shelves by imposing strict time breaks and targets.
One employee is quoted as saying that “targets had increased dramatically” and "I do not
drink water because I do not have time to go to the toilet.”
Since time wasting was constantly monitored, employees just peed in bottles because they
lived in fear of being disciplined over “idle time” and losing their job because they
needed to relieve themselves.
It’s sure is a good thing that Amazon sells piss bottles with 2-day prime delivery!
It’s most likely that Amazon doesn’t even give an employee discount.
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Number 1 ICE ICE Baby!
No not Vanilla, I’m thinking more Storm Trooper.
That’s better!
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ice-holes for short, is an agency within the Department
of Homeland Security responsible for separating migrant children from their parents.
ICE uses a system called Investigative Case Management, or Skynet for short, which is
designed to help law enforcement integrate vast systems of public and private data to
track down immigrants and deport them.
Within the first nine months of the Trump administration, ICE arrested 42% more people
than it did in the same period in the previous year.
ICM was designed by Palantir, a data-mining company founded by billionaire douche bag
Peter Thiel.
Palantir doesn't technically run ICM.
Amazon does, through its cloud servers, a service for which Palantir pays them $600,000
a month.
If Amazon ever decided to shut off ICM, all of that goes away.
ICE would still exist and operate, but in a massively reduced capacity.
Despite the many protests, including those by its own employees, Amazon continues to
work with ICE.
In fact, Amazon attempted to sell ICE a facial recognition software called “Rekognition”
with a “k”, to make the galactic empire even more efficient.
Don’t worry though!
Jeff Bezos responded by saying that if his company's technology is ever used in harmful
ways, then society's "immune response" would kick in.
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