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No, I haven’t. But I have bought a lot of things from them and used AWS extensively.

Their employees are there, I assume, because working for Amazon is better than their next best alternative.



Homelessness? Yes, sort of. I have family who work at a distribution center. They work under conditions that I couldn't contend with at a similar facility and which quickly drove me out. I don't know how they manage psychologically with late nights and stringent scheduling; they only manage economically with help from other family.

Amazon is, without a doubt, exploitative. And it's quite annoying to have someone, whose only contact with them is as a consumer and quasi-client, to be so adamant that they aren't.




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