“ In many ways, Amazon is the perfect snow globe of late stage capitalism. You shake it up and watch the pieces fall into place, but no one can call it a natural process. The brilliance of their approach was that they let you belong. They wanted your ideas. They took them and made money off them and paid you $9.50 if you put in some years.
Vanessa Veselka, In the wake of protest: One woman’s attempt to unionize Amazon
Not just a “more reasons to be scared of Amazon” piece. Veselka’s thesis—that today’s workers can be conned into giving up basic rights and anything approaching fair pay in exchange for specious class identification—is transferable to all sorts of economic and political scenarios. How different is it really from conservative politicians using wedge issues like abortion and gay marriage to convince lower-income people to vote against their own economic self-interests again and again?
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