Why Do We Trust Amazon?

amazon Germany just recently got under heavy fire for bad working conditions, bullying and low pay after making higher inital offers. only affects there warehouse people but it got pretty bad in the press. My mom was like "i am not buying from amazon anymore for the time being"

Just wanted to post this as it was in the news just days ago to give a counter perspective. Obv. amazon germany is a different company but its their second largest market.

[1] http://www.dw.de/amazon-scrambles-after-damning-german-docum...

I trust Amazon because their practices make me feel warm and gooey inside. The fact that (foreign) workers are actively exploited just so I can get something delivered that I could have bought for roughly the same price in an actual store for roughly the same price while simultaneously supporting the local economy aligns nicely with my worldview.

I trust Amazon because they treat their workers like cattle, allowing me to feel superior due the fact that I have not yet sunk low enough due to economic pressures that I have to leave my home (and family and/or country) in order to work for sub-standard wages in aforeign country without any actual enforcable rights. I trust Amazon because they successfully subvert union influence , hollowing out any form of social or political control in favour of laissez-faire. I trust Amazon because they fight essentially fight the fascism-socialism-communism of regulatory influence on a market.

I trust Amazon because their ideology does not just include jostling workers like livestock, rather, it also allows right-wing security contractors with Neo-Nazi affiliations to watch and exert control over a mostly foreign workforce.

I trust Amazon because it exploits present social laws if at all possible, showing us nicely that an international company really does good things for local communities.

I trust Amazon, since it is a company that can in all seriousness act surprised once its systematic and systemic abuse of people is uncovered, feigning unawareness and promising immediate consequences.

I trust Amazon because it can now hide behind the "mistake" made with a right-wing militiaesque security outfit instead of addressing the actual scandal, which is the ruthless exploitation of workers who have little choice.

I trust Amazon because it can rely on our own inactivity, complacency and convenience which will let us order things instead of realising the sick machinery that Amazon's behaviour is just a product and example of and that is far more widespread, where everyone involved can defer responsibility because they are but a cog in an overall bigger, self-perpetuating scheme.

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/neue-vorwuerfe-gegen-amazo... [german]

https://www.taz.de/!111213/ [german]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/amazon-used-n...

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-to-investigate-german-...

When I saw the title of this article, I thought it referred to the fact that something like 1% of Internet sites run on Amazon Elastic Cloud. I was expecting the author to intimate that Amazon might be spying on everything done on those millions of virtual servers (data stored in their databases, access logs, etc).

It seems to actually be saying something a lot less interesting (at least to me).

Over a decade of consistently met expectations?

I'm curious what you mean by "intrustive marketing emails". I've been a heavy Amazon customer more than 14 years (I easily spend five digits annually with them on products alone), I'm a Prime member, I use AWS, ... and I have never once received a single unsolicited email from Amazon (i.e., one not associated with the logistics of a specific purchase).