Posted on 11/28/2020 7:59:18 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Amazon, the monumental success that anti-capitalism commies like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez love to hate, is performing a pandemic miracle: creating a stunning number of new jobs during a crisis that has otherwise destroyed the global economy.
SEATTLE — Amazon has embarked on an extraordinary hiring binge this year, vacuuming up an average of 1,400 new workers a day and solidifying its power as online shopping becomes more entrenched in the coronavirus pandemic.
The hiring has taken place at Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle, at its hundreds of warehouses in rural communities and suburbs, and in countries such as India and Italy. Amazon added 427,300 employees between January and October, pushing its work force to more than 1.2 million people globally, up more than 50 percent from a year ago. Its number of workers now approaches the entire population of Dallas.
The spree has accelerated since the onset of the pandemic, which has turbocharged Amazon’s business and made it a winner of the crisis. Starting in July, the company brought on about 350,000 employees, or 2,800 a day. Most have been warehouse workers, but Amazon has also hired software engineers and hardware specialists to power enterprises such as cloud computing, streaming entertainment and devices, which have boomed in the pandemic.
At a time when the livelihoods of so many people are being crushed by petty tyrants who are using COVID-19 as an excuse to abuse power, this should be good news. Sadly, we live during a time when everyone to the left of the political center is utterly insane:
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
As @Amazon enjoys one of its biggest shopping days of the year, #BlackFriday, thousands of people around the world are protesting its facilities.
Here is what’s happening. 👇 https://t.co/TuNjYHawxs
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) November 27, 2020
We're very honoured by this!
But in all fairness @amazon , if you consider schoolchildren fighting for the right to a safe future to be a "threat to your business", then you seriously need to reconsider your priorities…#FridaysForFuture https://t.co/EO49WeFrdI— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) November 26, 2020
I joked that at the end of all this, we’ll all be working for Amazon, I might not be that far off.
a-HA! Amazon is the real super spreader.
Bezos loves the lockdowns.
Enabling The Washington Post to keep churning out its lies.
I’m sure they are hiring a lot of people since every other business got crushed by Corvid lock downs. It’s almost as if it was done on purpose to destroy small business ...
Meanwhile, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos's Washington Post continues glumly brainwashing all Americans, on a 24/7 basis, about how depressingly catastrophic conditions are in America, all because of ......... President Trump.
Go figure.
No, that’s just conspiracy talk.😁
Therein lies the true strength and future power of the levianthan known as Amazon. Is there a Theodore Roosevelt amongst us?
I think Bezos is the “Arthur Jensen” character from “Network.”
“And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that... perfect world... in which there’s no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.”
“And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that... perfect world... in which there’s no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.”
"Imagine there's no heaven ... Imagine all the people, living for today... Aha-ah... Imagine there's no countries, It isn't hard to do ... And no religion, too ... Imagine all the people, Living life in peace... You may say I'm a dreamer, But I'm not the only one, I hope someday you'll join us, And the world will be as one, Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man, Imagine all the people, Sharing all the world ..."
A slight modification to make those "Imagine" lyrics far briefer and far more accurate:
"Imagine a Marxist commie hellfire, throughout the USA, It isn't hard to do." - John Lenin, AOC, George Soros, and Ilhan Omar ("The Fab Four")
My son was hired 4 months ago by AWS; he was given a signing bonus equal to a years pay his over first two years... nearly 10K a month before bonus to start.
They are building a new amazon warehouse a few miles from my house here in suburban Jax, FL. There are now more amazon warehouses than walmart stores in most cities. They use ecommerce to subsidize the other parts of their business.
Ok, I’ll throw another Jensen quote:
“What do you think the Russians talk about in their Councils of State — Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.”
There will always be “Capitalism” under any kind of government, the only question is how the Capital is concentrated.
My toilet broke this morning. Went to the local mom and pop plumbing store.
Guy at store..”Oh that is a Mansfield # 2020..” and gave me the exact part I needed.
I went to the local Lowes earlier and their new business model is a generic part in a bag with 25 other parts for all models and you have to figure out what pieces you need and the rest you pitch.
The moral of the story is ai m going to miss all those mom and pops.
There’s a new Amazon delivery warehouse across the street from my company’s warehouse. It went up about a year ago. They must have 200 gray Sprinter vans. It’s a constant beehive of activity.
The warehouse is in front of ours and they park the vans behind it so we get a bonus of free 24 hour security since they patrol through our parking lot.
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