And McDonalds feeds 1% of the world every day.
And their main business is not food, but property:
https://www.google.no/amp/s/qz.com/965779/mcdonalds-isnt-rea...
1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
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Re: 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
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#63Neal Stephenson had the delivery part right.
There are still more Walmart employees than Amazon employees.
Re: 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
#64Also consider that quite a lot of people work within Amazon's greater sphere, with degrees of dependence ranging from significant to absolute. Eg all the people employed in parts of the ecommerce industry where amazon wields most of the power. AWSland. Etc. Since everyone is using government works as the comparison, government employees + government contractors, and those in the government contracting sphere. so, yea…
There are still more Walmart employees than Amazon employees.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think OP's intuition is probably wrong and that "1 in Y" is more effective than "X%". That being said, it is tricky to move the adjustment between the numerator and denominator, and there are cases where this choice can be key -- "25 miles per gallon" is indeed a far worse metric to use than "4 gallons per 100 miles".
It isn't if you know the capacity of your tank in gallons, and want to know how far you can drive on average before refilling it. Or if you know the price of gasoline, and want to know how far you can drive for some amount of money. In fact I'm struggling to come up with practical circumstances where gallons per 100 miles is what I'd want to know, could you explain why that seems better to you?
In Portugal (and I guess several other countries) fuel economy is defined as "how many liters per 100 km?". In Brazil it's "how many km per liter?".
Re: 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
#66That makes Amazon #3, after the federal government and Walmart: Entity US Employees 1. US Government 2.7M 2. Walmart 1.6M 3. Amazon 1.0M If Amazon continues to grow at current rates, it will surpass Walmart's figure within 2 years. Looking at these figures, it's evident that these three entities are far larger, wealthier, more connected, and likely more powerful than the vast majority of US cities, the vast majority…
> likely more powerful than the vast majority of US cities, the vast majority of small countries
Indeed there are not a lot of countries/cities that are wealthy/powerful enough to send people in space
Re: 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think OP's intuition is probably wrong and that "1 in Y" is more effective than "X%". That being said, it is tricky to move the adjustment between the numerator and denominator, and there are cases where this choice can be key -- "25 miles per gallon" is indeed a far worse metric to use than "4 gallons per 100 miles".
It isn't if you know the capacity of your tank in gallons, and want to know how far you can drive on average before refilling it. Or if you know the price of gasoline, and want to know how far you can drive for some amount of money. In fact I'm struggling to come up with practical circumstances where gallons per 100 miles is what I'd want to know, could you explain why that seems better to you?
> Equal increases in MPG are not equal in gas savings.
Re: 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
#68And McDonalds feeds 1% of the world every day.
And their main business is not food, but property: https://www.google.no/amp/s/qz.com/965779/mcdonalds-isnt-rea...
Actually, it's a pokemon card distributor: https://dotesports.com/news/players-are-sharing-positive-fir...
Re: 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
#69In the spirit of the FSF's "Right to Read"[1] dystopia story, I present "Fully Automated Amazon Communism" : 1. Everyone works at Amazon 2. Amazon has vertically integrated into every conceivable industry. 3. Everyone gets paid in Amazon gift cards. 4. Amazon automatically delivers to your home everything you need to live your life without you having to ask. It knows what to order based on an AI model of everything y…
you're being downvoter and I don't understand why.
Here are a few more things for your list:
7. Amazon monitors everything you do online and offline (they do provide the backbone and all of ISP services). Corrective action is taken if needed
8. Amazon decides who get to live and who gets to die based on your predicted future value. Also, Amazon decides who gets to reproduce.
Re: 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
#70That makes Amazon #3, after the federal government and Walmart: Entity US Employees 1. US Government 2.7M 2. Walmart 1.6M 3. Amazon 1.0M If Amazon continues to grow at current rates, it will surpass Walmart's figure within 2 years. Looking at these figures, it's evident that these three entities are far larger, wealthier, more connected, and likely more powerful than the vast majority of US cities, the vast majority…
Not just a few, Amazon has more workers than any of the 10 smallest states and more revenue than the GDP of the smallest 30 (individually, not summed).