The Bezos behemoth

Andrew Orlowski

WHAT’S NOT TO LIKE ABOUT AMazon? The company brings the world’s goods to our door, at ever lower prices. We may grumble, but can’t resist. As president, Donald Trump regularly goaded Amazon from the Oval Office, but when the pandemic struck, his White House was obliged to order the FEMA agency to buy $13 million worth of thermometers from the online giant. But behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories, which the Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli tells in a new book, The Everything War. Amazon is a subject as vast and hard to map as the rainforest itself, and so much of what it does is out of sight. It’s a giant logistics network, a movie studio, and provides the computing infrastructure that underpins a million and…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2024

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