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Teaser - AmazonCare (03/29/21)

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4.8588 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear the full episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/49364437 (Teaser) We discuss this week's Amazon union vote alongside the company's announced expansion of its healthcare business, Amazon Care, to be available in more states and to other companies across the US. But first, we look at a new study that asks “Why Is All Covid-19 News Bad News?” Runtime 1:19:46 DP EP 238, 29 March 2021 🧬

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was actually kind of the problem?

0:01.9

No, I mean, it's, it sort of reminds me of like, you know, the, it's almost as if these

0:06.9

Amazon managers and like Bayes, all the way up to Bayes is like they, they went back to the early

0:12.3

20th century and they read like the old, like truly true, like you want to get like the,

0:19.0

like the true raw, like principles of scientific management

0:22.9

is the idea that like no you know what the worker is the worker is just this like thing that we can

0:29.1

like it what we really want to do is find out how to get like the optimum amount of energy out of

0:34.2

this thing that like and then eventually it will die but like we just

0:38.1

want to make sure that we can get the most out of it it's like they read that stuff

0:41.6

and they're like yeah you know here's how much like pig iron like a person can

0:45.6

like carry and like except what they did was they dressed up with like you know

0:50.9

what's great is like after you know with with the new robots that will cause a variety of injuries by causing your productivity, demand of productivity rate to go up to like, you know, 400 items per hour from 100.

1:06.2

You're going to have more time to like think and create and like family.

1:10.5

And like also Amazon is iww

1:12.8

now except we have better potlucks um you know it's like they just like took the 90s like pasty

1:19.9

pastiche of like liberal uh culture uh and they're like you know you know what would go really well

1:27.2

with this is just the old school, like, man at work, time motion study.

1:32.7

Yeah, they just like went to the occult section of the management and self-help bookstore or something and just found like a copy of, yeah, this like standards and management textbook, but that has just been hollowed

1:45.8

out with the Necronomicon inside of it or something. Yeah, I mean, I think it's worth,

1:50.7

this is an obvious point, but I think it's really worth stating that there is absolutely

1:55.6

no amount of money or a fair wage for the work that Amazon or like the productivity circumstances

2:04.3

that Amazon puts its employees in because like, you know, the entire business model at this

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