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Amazon.com, Inc. | |
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| Industry | E-commerce, digital distribution, supermarket |
| Founded | Cadabra, Inc. July 5, 1994 Bellevue, Washington, United States |
| Founder | Jeff Bezos |
| Headquarters | 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, Washington, 98109 |
| Key people | Jeff Bezos (CEO) |
| Ownership | Jeff Bezos (14.0%) The Vanguard Group, Inc. (6.4%) BlackRock, Inc. (5.5%)[1] |
| Number of employees | 1,608,000[2] |
| Revenue | US$469.822 billion (2021)[2] |
| Net income | US$33.364 billion (2021)[2] |
| Total assets | US$420.549 billion (2021)[2] |
Amazon.com, Inc. is a Statesian imperialist digital retail company. Led by the bourgeois Jeff Bezos, it holds a hegemonic hold over the transportation of goods in the United States of America, and is one of the largest perpetrators of worker-exploitation in the Western world.[3] Amazon is worth over a trillion US dollars.[4]
As is expected with capitalists, Amazon commonly engages in "lobbying" (bribery) with the already plutocratic U.S. government. Amazon's main efforts with their "lobbying" commonly include retarding labor rights, having their puppets in the U.S. government pass laws which better permit their tax-evasion, and overall cementing their place as a monopoly, at the expense of their laborers, of course.[5][6][7]
Working conditions
Amazon workers do not have access to clean water and warehouse workers have to wear diapers because they cannot use the restroom during their shifts. In Arizona, a third of Amazon's employees rely on food stamps to survive.[4]
With the COVID-19 pandemic, the conditions for the workers of Amazon saw a horrific decline. In spite of COVID spreading rapidly in areas near Amazon workplaces, the workers were nonetheless forced to work unpaid overtime,[8] without adequate protective gear, and sometimes in brutal heat.[9] However, Jeff Bezos and his clique of investors, removed from the struggles of their workers, were able to benefit greatly from the pandemic.[10][11]
Union
In spite of Amazon's massive union-busting efforts, by April of 2022, workers in New York City (USA) where able to successfully unionize their workplace, much to the loathing of the capitalists, and their media.[12][13]
Imperialism
Amazon provides cloud computing services to the NSA and CIA.[14] As part of Project Nimbus, Amazon is providing surveillance technology to the State of Israel.[15]
Impact on Environment
Amazon warehouses destroy any products (even if they are in good or unused condition) when the product owner no longer desires the product as a cost reduction method.[16]
References
- ↑ "AMAZON.COM, INC." (2021-05-26). United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Form 10-K: AMAZON.COM, INC." (2022-02-04). United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
- ↑ Jon Henley, Ed Pilkington (2008-2-26). "Divide and rule" The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-6-11.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Alan Macleod (2020-03-23). "Jeff Bezos, World’s richest man, wants your donations to help Amazon employees" MintPress News. Archived from the original on 2022-07-01. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
- ↑ "Client Profile: Amazon.com" (2021). Opensecrets.org.
- ↑ Tony Romm (2014-6-8). "On Amazon's list: D.C. influence" Politico.com.
- ↑ Jeffery Dastin, Chris Kirkham, Aditya Kalra (2021-11-19). "Amazon wages secret war on Americans' privacy, documents show" Reuters.com. Retrieved 2022-6-11.
- ↑ Charles R. Davis (2020-4-22). "Amazon set to end 'unlimited unpaid time off' policy" Businessinsider.com. Retrieved 2022-6-11.
- ↑ Lauren Kaori Gurley (2021-7-8). "Amazon Workers Describe 'Excessive Heat,' 'Fainting' in NYC Warehouse" Vice.com.
- ↑ Chuck Collins (2021-9-24). "U.S. Billionaires Got 62 percent Richer During Pandemic. They’re Now Up $1.8 Trillion." Institute for Policy Studies.
- ↑ Mark John (2021-12-7). "Pandemic boosts super-rich share of global wealth" Reuters.com. Retrieved 2022-6-11.
- ↑ Sara Ashley O'Brien (2022-4-1). "Amazon workers at New York warehouse vote to form company's first US union" CNN.com.
- ↑ Lucas Jackson (2021-6-4). "Amazon fired him – now he’s trying to unionize 5,000 workers in New York" The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-6-11.
- ↑ Raul Diego (2020-11-23). "CIA Partners with Google, Amazon and IBM in Latest Big Tech Procurement Drive" MintPress News. Retrieved 2022-09-18.
- ↑ Jessica Buxbaum (2022-08-02). "Top Recruits Refuse to Work for Google or Amazon over Involvement in Israeli War Crimes" MintPress News. Archived from the original on 2022-08-15. Retrieved 2022-09-18.
- ↑ ITV News (2021-06-21). "Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses each year | ITV News". YouTube.