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Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States

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Re: Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States

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Post by aww_dang »

beckman466 wrote: post #20

> the warehouse worker is neither seen nor heard by the customer; at least at Walmart, you go to a store and you see the workers — you know they exist. This made me think of the movie 'The Island' where in one scene, somewhere in the beginning of the movie, they show us the work our protagonists do in their community. There are tubes coming out of the wall on one side of the room and out the other; tubes which have a…

Even if we were to accept class theory, in the 21st century nearly everyone has access to a computer, one of the most productive goods.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27903630

Re: Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States

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Post by kazen44 »

emteycz wrote: post #22
eganist wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The article seems to contain nothing that would qualify for the words "Company Town". It appears to boil down "look amazon is big, surely it means that it must be evil!". I guess this is the difference between a literal v. figurative interpretation of the title. The article itself is speaking to Amazon's efforts to sustain its hiring pipeline in the face of colossal churn, describing activities such as sponsoring s…

So what? The EU and other similar institutions require their branding to be present in classes too. I'd rather have obviously absurd corporate branding than slow but sure political indoctrination (e.g. the EU makes it look like the local government is incapable of doing anything on its own, while the fact is that everything worked pretty well before the EU and even today 90%+ of funding is local - but the EU flag mus…

the EU doesn't require its "branding" present in schools. also, even If that was the case, there is an enormous difference between amazon and the European union. mainly the fact that as a citizen I can vote (directly through the parlement elections, indirectly through council of ministers which is made up of elected officials of member states) who is in "control" of the governance of the European union. while I cannot vote on who is CEO of amazon...

the EU also has contributed signifanctly to post world war 2 European peace.

Re: Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States

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Post by iamacyborg »

emteycz wrote: post #22
eganist wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The article seems to contain nothing that would qualify for the words "Company Town". It appears to boil down "look amazon is big, surely it means that it must be evil!". I guess this is the difference between a literal v. figurative interpretation of the title. The article itself is speaking to Amazon's efforts to sustain its hiring pipeline in the face of colossal churn, describing activities such as sponsoring s…

So what? The EU and other similar institutions require their branding to be present in classes too. I'd rather have obviously absurd corporate branding than slow but sure political indoctrination (e.g. the EU makes it look like the local government is incapable of doing anything on its own, while the fact is that everything worked pretty well before the EU and even today 90%+ of funding is local - but the EU flag mus…

I went to school in British and French schools and never saw European flags. You’re talking absolute nonsense.

Re: Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States

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Post by bserge »

emteycz wrote: post #22
eganist wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The article seems to contain nothing that would qualify for the words "Company Town". It appears to boil down "look amazon is big, surely it means that it must be evil!". I guess this is the difference between a literal v. figurative interpretation of the title. The article itself is speaking to Amazon's efforts to sustain its hiring pipeline in the face of colossal churn, describing activities such as sponsoring s…

So what? The EU and other similar institutions require their branding to be present in classes too. I'd rather have obviously absurd corporate branding than slow but sure political indoctrination (e.g. the EU makes it look like the local government is incapable of doing anything on its own, while the fact is that everything worked pretty well before the EU and even today 90%+ of funding is local - but the EU flag mus…

Oh please, corporate indoctrination is still indoctrination.

You can see it in stuff like young people saying "We need to conserve bandwidth, the ISPs can't handle it" (talking about 100GB/mo on mobile, which is apparently a huge number for some, but why defend the ISP).

And subscription models for everything, but "it's OK, X company is trustworthy."

Re: Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States

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Post by ceejayoz »

emteycz wrote: post #22
eganist wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The article seems to contain nothing that would qualify for the words "Company Town". It appears to boil down "look amazon is big, surely it means that it must be evil!". I guess this is the difference between a literal v. figurative interpretation of the title. The article itself is speaking to Amazon's efforts to sustain its hiring pipeline in the face of colossal churn, describing activities such as sponsoring s…

So what? The EU and other similar institutions require their branding to be present in classes too. I'd rather have obviously absurd corporate branding than slow but sure political indoctrination (e.g. the EU makes it look like the local government is incapable of doing anything on its own, while the fact is that everything worked pretty well before the EU and even today 90%+ of funding is local - but the EU flag mus…

> everything worked pretty well before the EU

Just, you know, two World Wars.

Re: Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States

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Post by JCM9 »

Like a lot of these stories there’s lots of ways to spin reality.

Headline could read “Company turns up providing much needed high paying jobs to region left devastated by failed industries (steel, manufacturing, …”. Or you could say “Evil company moved in and sets up company town.”

Honestly agnostic to this whole thing but it’s interesting to watch efforts to spin things one way or another.

Re: Amazon Is Creating Company Towns Across the United States

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Post by ipaddr »

emteycz wrote: post #22
eganist wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The article seems to contain nothing that would qualify for the words "Company Town". It appears to boil down "look amazon is big, surely it means that it must be evil!". I guess this is the difference between a literal v. figurative interpretation of the title. The article itself is speaking to Amazon's efforts to sustain its hiring pipeline in the face of colossal churn, describing activities such as sponsoring s…

So what? The EU and other similar institutions require their branding to be present in classes too. I'd rather have obviously absurd corporate branding than slow but sure political indoctrination (e.g. the EU makes it look like the local government is incapable of doing anything on its own, while the fact is that everything worked pretty well before the EU and even today 90%+ of funding is local - but the EU flag mus…

The EU is not a company. It's a government voted for by citizens of countries.

Amazon is a private company.

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