1367: Producing Amazon workers / Panos Theodoropoulos
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This Is Hell!
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🗓️ 21 July 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Make it back. |
| 0:05.0 | a better. |
| 0:08.0 | Make it better. Make it turn. You're welcoming. |
| 0:39.0 | This is hell. Live from late capitalism, where property has more rights than people. Yes, this is hell. |
| 0:42.0 | Amazon is worse than you can imagine and that's the last thing they want you to do. |
| 0:46.7 | Imagine a future where there is an alternative to neoliberalism. |
| 0:51.5 | Yes, Amazon actively works to wipe the notion from its workers |
| 0:55.1 | minds of any alternative to our increasingly precarious life of unstable high |
| 1:00.4 | pressure work with continuing downward pressure on worker pay and benefits. |
| 1:05.0 | They pit worker against worker imposing a highly individualistic work environment that divides |
| 1:09.6 | workers between the deserving and not deserving human beings and the bad |
| 1:16.5 | unproductive ones who need to be culled from the herd. This precarious nature of |
| 1:21.5 | work is not only at Amazon, but as today's guest argues, Amazon is the |
| 1:26.3 | apogee of this kind of labor relations. |
| 1:29.4 | And if we're not careful, we will be living in a dystopian world where workers are at each other's throats and grateful for whatever scraps billionaires throw at us while refusing to recognize we have far more in common with our coworker who we just stabbed in the back. Then the tycoon tossing us crumbs. Of course, there is an alternative, no matter how |
| 1:48.1 | much Amazon and Jeff Baysos want there not to be any, and that alternative is collectively organizing outside our workplaces that are now structured to stymie any labor organizing whatsoever. |
| 1:59.2 | And in the working class communities where precarious workers live, public common spaces where we can find out |
| 2:04.6 | just how hard we're getting screwed. |
| 2:08.8 | We'll get an even better appreciation of how much Amazon and Jeff Bazaa sucks. |
| 2:13.4 | Let me speak in a few minutes with writer and editor |
| 2:17.3 | and political sociologist, Panos Theodoropoulos, |
| 2:20.6 | who wrote the Roar magazine article rituals of submission |
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