The Uneasy Amazon Coalition, With Fulfillment Author Alec MacGillis

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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ProPublica senior reporter Alec MacGillis highlights the growing economic divide in the U.S. — through the lens of Amazon — in his new book, Fulfillment. MacGillis joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the state of the union push inside Amazon, how labor has changed more broadly in the U.S., and the uneasy political coalition between those packing and delivering Amazon packages and those receiving them.

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0:00.0	From LinkedIn News, I'm Leah Smart, host of Everyday Better, an award-winning podcast dedicated to personal development.
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0:36.6	Hey, Alec.
0:37.8	Hi.
0:38.9	How's it going?
0:39.4	I have your book right here.
0:40.4	I've really enjoyed it, and I'm thrilled that you're on the show.
0:43.6	Okay, I will hit play on the end.
0:45.7	We have a new sponsor, Main Street, and then we can jump right into the conversation.
1:07.5	Okay. Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.
1:10.9	Alec McGillis is the author of Fulfillment, Winning and Losing in One Click America,
1:13.3	a terrific, terrific new book about Amazon's impact on our economy and society.
1:18.5	And more broadly about how our society concentrates power and wealth in the hands of the few,
1:23.0	it makes it extremely difficult for others to break through.
1:25.7	He is also a senior reporter at ProPublica.
1:29.2	Alec, welcome to the show. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Okay, so why don't we start with the news?
1:35.6	So Amazon's been flailing a bit with its PR strategy. On Twitter, it was taunting the members of the
1:42.5	Senate and a member of the Congress and basically said to one of them, you don't believe our workers really pee in bottles, do you?
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