If I wrote about conservatives thinking wildfires are caused by a space laser weapon to attack the US I would be asked to not make such ridiculous caricatures but https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66457091

tumblr -> reddit -> lemmy

Pro tip: Use Amazon solely as a products directory. Once you find something you like to buy, copy the item name and search for other stores selling that item. If no other options exist it's likely cheap amazon trash, and look for a different product (not sure how well this works since I can't shop online rn since i don't have a bank account yet)

Always looked like a curved dick to me

When the "Amazon smile" was added in 2000, it was a very different company. I used to work there a few years after that and did not leave on good terms a decade later.

In those early days, there was a bunch of innovation that was good for customers, for example showing critical reviews online (vendors were horrified as previously only curated good or editorial reviews were shown), or listing used items alongside the new ones, Amazon music let you upload your own mp3s, AWS majority leveled the playing field for startups, ...

But even back then everybody knew that the warehouse jobs had very bad conditions (though that was certainly not unique to Amazon).

By 2015 I had certainly had enough. Vendors were squeezed for every cent, Amazon just copied successful products and produced them themselves in China, the management culture became more and more toxic (Managers had to find bad performers in their team, no matter if there were any), new people earned so much more than people who had some the same job for years, promotions decisions were majority influence by office politics, senior managers ran pretty much unchecked, the interview process was so hard, everybody who was involved from the Amazon side doubted they could make it through themselves, ... Currently, established authors have 0 recourse of somebody sells AI-generated books under their name.

I could go on :p

I remember watching a Canadian cartoon called Jimmy Twoshoes, where the organization of focus was called Misery Inc. in a town called Miseryville and they were kind of this ruling corporation owned by a demon that made products specifically to make people miserable, but people still bought it because they have literally no other option.

As a dumb kid I totally missed the (now in hindsight, quite obvious) commentary on capitalism that the show was making. Anyway, how long till that becomes a documentary you think?

Joja

Maybe the heavy handed metaphor editors mean would be to reality

This is why I am convinced, that this cannot be the prime timeline. Not only, I repeat not only, has everything done horrifically terrible. But there are too many things that are so terribly written, that I have to be in some kind of dystopian novel.

I mean do you know how many times Hollywood writers have been told that their scenes where the bad guys attack the capital have to be rejected, simply because it was too unrealistic for such a thing to not be met with immediate and deadly force? And yet January 6th.

I think you mean Apple. Amazon is only half the size of Apple

I thought they flattened it a bit for effect, but nope. Can't unsee that!

Actually that's a slim peen.