[pengaru]

It's been surprising to see how much better people tend to view Amazon vs. Walmart when Amazon is just the next iteration of megacorp retail consolidation in the same vein with an increasingly horrible record of employee exploitation and abuse.

[rchaud]

That's because we've had a good 15 years of tweets and articles from tech luminaries and op-ed writers that used their shopping experience at Amazon as a stick to beat Walmart with. For the most part, those thought pieces have always been written by white-collar people who had no idea of the human toll that two-day shipping takes.

Their entire experience w/ Amazon starts at the website and ends with the brown box with the smile on it.

[me_me_me]

When even one cent difference in cost equals millions in profit, its much easier to pretend you are dealing with numbers and not people.

I am not defending anyone only pointing out that maybe we shouldn't have entities so big that dissociation of mid to high level management decision's to reality is so easy. Where guilt and responsibility is pushed down the ladder on daily basis.