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Amazon has chickenized the reverse-centaurs

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@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ Amazon is the root of abuses of privacy, freedom, human rights, civil liberties,
1. Amazon was [caught][personalizedpricing] using *personalized pricing* (charged different prices to different people for DVDs)
1. Amazon is notorious for **fighting unions** and **mistreating employees** despite its wealth and growth.
1. Amazon runs an extreme sweatshop that diminishes quality of life. The consequential mental health crisis is [evidenced][callsTo911] by 189 calls from Amazon warehouses to 911 in five years.
1. Amazon has [chickenized reverse-centaurs][chickenization].
1. Amazon uses automation that [increases injury rates][roboinjury].
1. Amazon [enabled covid19-infected workers][covid] to work, which caused several outbreaks in warehouses, then Amazon retaliated against whistle blowers.
1. Amazon coerced a city to [alter traffic light timing][trafficManipulation] so union organizers couldn't use a red traffic light to reach workers.
1. Amazon was [fined][tiptheft] $61.7 million for keeping drivers' tips.
1. Amazon drug tests its employees, thus intruding on their privacy outside the workplace and also harming their healthcare.
1. [oppressive and callous attitude][oppression] toward staff.
1. [55-hour work weeks][work55hrs]
@ -131,6 +136,21 @@ See also Richard Stallman's [Amazon RAP sheet][RMS], which we will one day merge
[callsTo911]: <https://gizmodo.com/report-amazon-warehouses-called-911-for-mental-health-1833220938>
[callsTo911-cache]: <https://web.archive.org/web/20210115073502/gizmodo.com/report-amazon-warehouses-called-911-for-mental-health-1833220938>
[chickenization]: https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/19/the-shakedown/#weird-flex
[chickenization-cache]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210319201637/https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/19/the-shakedown/#weird-flex
[tiptheft]: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/amazon-ftc-pay-flex-drivers-stolen-tips.html
[tiptheft-cache]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210315082128/slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/amazon-ftc-pay-flex-drivers-stolen-tips.html
[roboinjury]: https://www.ft.com/content/087fce16-3924-4348-8390-235b435c53b2
[roboinjury-cache]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210309144309/www.ft.com/content/087fce16-3924-4348-8390-235b435c53b2
[covid]: https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/03/socially-useless-parasite/#christian-smalls
[covid-cache]:https://web.archive.org/web/20210308142716/https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/03/socially-useless-parasite
[trafficManipulation]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/17/22287191/amazon-alabama-warehouse-union-traffic-light-change-bessemer
[trafficManipulation-cache]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210312181909/www.theverge.com/2021/2/17/22287191/amazon-alabama-warehouse-union-traffic-light-change-bessemer
[oppression]: <https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/amazon-devastating-expose-accuses-internet-retailer-of-oppressive-and-callous-attitude-to-staff-10458159.html>
[oppression-cache]: <https://web.archive.org/web/20201111174127/www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/amazon-devastating-expose-accuses-internet-retailer-oppressive-and-callous-attitude-staff-10458159.html>