Amazon is Shrinking it's warehouse operations
(www.bloomberg.com)
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the great reset progressing as planned
get ready for a series of "accidental" infrastructure failures which will make it progressively more and more expensive to live in single family homes, legislation that make it more and more expensive to own private cars, and rising prices and prohibitive zoning on any property that isn't inside of an incorporated city
Unironically a good thing. People will prefer to share homes with their extended family than with strangers. They will unintentionally strengthen nuclear families.
That's why they're going all-in on mandating infrastructure that requires centralization. Because you're right: a lot of their desired policies (like not traveling so much and staying closer to home) have a tendency to encourage localism and stronger local in-group preferences.
But if you're also dependent on the electric grid that they can cut you off from, and you can't grow your own food because they can shut you off from the water supply, and you can't just buy fuel for a generator because either generators are illegal or you can't buy fuel, then it becomes much easier to tamp down on that sort of thing.
Of course that assumes they can keep the wheels from falling off the global just-in-time supply chain this plan requires, and that's not a forgone conclusion.
Some truth to that. A couple of the 20-somethings I know live with their parents still, but not quite in the "mom's basement" way. Outside of being a bit behind in their life than where I was at that age....say they are at 24 where I was at 20 or so, it's not like I'm talking about deadbeats. The cost for an apartment in an area I actually rented about a dozen years ago they were looking at has more than doubled. It's very much forcing people in with family.
Yes, but also no. There'll be a time where housing is dirt cheap everywhere; they're destroying the economy wholesale, and anything in a bubble will, at least for a while, end up cheaper than it was. The people just have to swoop and get some before the corps take it all.
Sadly, aside from that (and that's just a short stopgap) you're probably completely correct.
While retail is Amazon’s #1 source of revenue, it’s not where they make most of their profit. That would be AWS, which has only continued to grow in the past few years.
Point being, it’s great to see them have to scale back like this, but don’t expect it to have a long term effect on their bottom line.
That's been really annoying.
Stop buying from them.
They expanded pretty far into areas they probably didn't have to bother with, and are streamlining some of their operations. I've seen packages come out of areas that were farther away now come out of warehouses 20 minutes closer over the past year.
Also, closing warehouses is likely union busting since there's been a massive push by them to organize the labor in every Amazon facility.
Like the FBI, TV and having to go into the gas station to pay, unions are very outdated in the west. A lot are just political tools and haven't helped their members, in fact when they 'help', they are usually protecting the ones causing all the issues and greater public backlash.
Good. I hope he fucks the unions out of existence and crushes their spirits. Increase the use of robots and go back to multiple items in one box instead of a thousand different packages.