> Amazon is turning into a larger and more ruthless FedEx, yet somehow gets a free pass
They're not getting a free pass. I've been reading about Amazon abuse stories non-stop for ten years in the mainstream media, as it pertains to their treatment of labor in logistics.
We're discussing this right now on HN, and every big story about this sort of thing re Amazon shows up on HN, precisely because they have not been getting a free pass. It's closer to universally understood that Amazon doesn't take good care of its logistics workers (and it may be wider than that based on some past stories). Every time something happens in that segment of Amazon's business, it makes the NY Times and the frontpage of all US media (just as the bottle pissing did, or the building air conditioning story did before that, or the employee cancer story).
They're not getting a free pass. I've been reading about Amazon abuse stories non-stop for ten years in the mainstream media, as it pertains to their treatment of labor in logistics.
We're discussing this right now on HN, and every big story about this sort of thing re Amazon shows up on HN, precisely because they have not been getting a free pass. It's closer to universally understood that Amazon doesn't take good care of its logistics workers (and it may be wider than that based on some past stories). Every time something happens in that segment of Amazon's business, it makes the NY Times and the frontpage of all US media (just as the bottle pissing did, or the building air conditioning story did before that, or the employee cancer story).