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That's a simplification.

Amazon warehouses ARE oppressive.

And there's nothing superficially wrong with automating the picking and packing of boxes.

The problems come later, and it's not Amazon's "fault" but rather a much larger problem that eventually we'll all have to deal with: what happens when "enough" people get involuntarily shoved out of the workforce, with vanishingly remote prospects of securing other paying work?




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