I wonder how it looks if you consider all the companies running on AWS and the engineers that only use AWS. 1 out of 153 working for Amazon, but I guess what I'm wondering is how many depend on AWS.
1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
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#72I’m torn badly with Amazon. After read The Everything Store, and what has been written all over the place, Jeff Bezos is a massive turd. Employees are horribly treated, wages suppressed, and all sorts of terrible and abusive practices.
Then it comes time for me to buy something. I needed a new pair of size 14 sneakers. I drove to Adidas, Footlocker, dicks, and a few other stores but I just couldn’t justify $100 sneakers that didn’t look like prison issued.
Opened my Amazon app in my car after leaving the crowded mall, and find what appear to be a decent pair of shoes. FakeSpot agreed with the reviews, and I bought then for $35. They will arrive tomorrow.
That kind of convenience is terribly addicting. I haven’t figured out the solution, but I remember what it was like when Walmart came to town, put others out of business, mistreated employees, etc. We were unable to stop it then, how the heck are we going to stop it now?
So aside from “just stop buying from Amazon” what can we do ?
Re: 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
#73When AWS sneeze we all cough hard.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Walmart, which has a presence in communities of all shapes and sizes, is the largest private employer in the nation with 1.5 million workers. Yet the number of Americans who rely on the corporate giant for their livelihoods is dwarfed by the number who rely on the federal government for their paychecks. The federal government employs nearly 9.1 million workers, comprising nearly 6 percent of total employment in the U…
State and local is even bigger. Id guess 600k employees of New York state/county/city/town/authority payrolls. Mass employment businesses aren’t common. I visited a gold ball factory once… there were about 3 people packing boxes and one dude fiddling with the machines.
I was going to say, I've looked at local statistics before for my area and found out the city and local municipalities have a ton of employees. Typically the biggest employer in your city is going to be your city, possibly your county.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're comparing apples to oranges. Would you be able to buy a couch on Amazon? The #1 bestseller on Amazon currently says "Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock." so it doesn't work here the same way other retailers don't work. So you're saying you can't get a passport from the government but you're able to buy certain things on Amazon therefore Amazon is better?
I just opened amazon incognito, searched for "couch", and everything seems to be available in a week. Some in 4 days.
Don’t you need to lay on it first? I’ve avoided beds like Casper because it’s an inconvenience if I don’t like it. Gotta lay on the couch.
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#76Neal Stephenson had the delivery part right.
Fun fact: the name of the service AWS Sumerian comes from Snow Crash!
Re: 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
#77I’m torn badly with Amazon. After read The Everything Store, and what has been written all over the place, Jeff Bezos is a massive turd. Employees are horribly treated, wages suppressed, and all sorts of terrible and abusive practices. Then it comes time for me to buy something. I needed a new pair of size 14 sneakers. I drove to Adidas, Footlocker, dicks, and a few other stores but I just couldn’t justify $100 sneak…
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#78I’m torn badly with Amazon. After read The Everything Store, and what has been written all over the place, Jeff Bezos is a massive turd. Employees are horribly treated, wages suppressed, and all sorts of terrible and abusive practices. Then it comes time for me to buy something. I needed a new pair of size 14 sneakers. I drove to Adidas, Footlocker, dicks, and a few other stores but I just couldn’t justify $100 sneak…
Stop being a slave to your addictions and form some principles. Come on.
Re: 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
#79I wonder how it looks if you consider all the companies running on AWS and the engineers that only use AWS. 1 out of 153 working for Amazon, but I guess what I'm wondering is how many depend on AWS.
AWS is the magic that allows Amazon to scale its operations. I wouldn't be surprised if the Retail business was getting discounted (possibly free) rates for AWS products.
If the US was serious about antitrust, breaking AWS from Retail would probably be the best thing it could do.
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#80That 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
Blue Origin isn't that expensive, at least by nation state standards. Its just if there's no political will for a space program then there will be no space program. Space is a money blackhole for the most part so there's no big incentive to start one especially when governments are busy, ideally, fighting poverty, enforcing law, regulating capitalism, and protecting workers. The USA didn't have its own human rated launch vehicle for years and it wasn't a big deal. Space isn't a compelling target for good reasons and the midcentury space-race was little more than showing off ICBM capabilities between two nations who wanted to murder each other.
I'm glad we've moved to a peaceful and private-public model with BO and SpaceX but its not like every country is failing everyday at getting rockets off the ground. They just don't care that much and know they can buy rocket rides from other nations, the same as buying medicine or arms from them. It just makes a lot more sense to buy space-related services from others than start your own for almost all nations.