be angry all you want that big bad Amazon and the others have changed the consumer experience, and that the local malls or mom 'n pop shops are hurting for it. just as long as you get used to it, cause the old days are never coming back.
in the early times of the industrial revolution, humanity's productivity took a massive leap forward, and the cost was a great deal of suffering for the factory workers. took us a long time to improve things, and the same problems are still playing out in other places that are catching up.
the working conditions at Amazon are crap, but they will improve as the voices demanding change get louder. it's happened before and it will happen again. and eventually, automation is going to take over more and more of the grunt jobs anyways, so it'll be a different set of issues to resolve.
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