Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/21/amazons-government-charm-off.html
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Potemkin warehouse?
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I’ve visited Amazon “Fulfillment Centers” before (when I worked for Amazon). They’re an amazingly efficient machine. Problem is, it’s difficult to find room for a lot of humanity in the middle of a machine. Every year they add a bit more automation – giant robot arms for routing boxes, Kiva robots for moving shelves around for pickers, autonomous transports to move things from one end of the giant building to the other – and it starts looking more and more like people are just mice crawling around inside a clock. So far, human beings are still the most flexible way to recognize items on shelves, pull them off, and put them in a box. I don’t expect that to be the case beyond 2030.
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Free access to the warehouse should be treated as income for anyone up for election and it be made sure that contribution limits followed accordingly. Fuck Bezos.
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I just saw an ad from amazon offering me a free warehouse tour while browsing NYT. Seemed cool but I am sure that the boiler room warehouses that have real problems are not on the tour.
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My first thought was they should have to film an episode of a new show called “Undercover Lawmaker,” where they must spend a week in the warehouse as a Workamper.
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No way they relaxed the quotas on tour day, right?
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A brief tour through selected areas of a warehouse followed by a surf n’ turf lunch where the politician is given 4 minutes to grandstand their worn out speeches to the accolades and forced wonderment to people wearing nice suits.
Sounds like a wasted afternoon for the entire country.
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