i think amazon does a very poor job of screening out people who are most likely injured. If you do enough repetitive work like this, that you can get repetitive stress injuries that show up years or decades later. An amazon worker is totally interchangeable and can be replaced with somebody who can be trained within a day. Workers have a so called andon cord next to them, which they can pull stop the entire assembly line tobe. Like we have a problem right here. We need to deal with it.
At some point in their journey, 90% of the world's goods travel by ship. Ordering something on Amazon may be simple, but getting to your front door is anything but. It's a topic that Christopher Mims, technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, covers in his book Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door – Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy.
In this episode producer Ricky Mulvey talks with Mims about his book, covering topics including: - The roots of the microchip shortage - Why Uber had a difficult time disrupting the trucking industry. - What it’s like to work in an Amazon fulfillment center - How to explain the metaverse to your mom
You can follow Christopher Mims on Twitter @mims.
Host: Ricky Mulvey Guest: Christopher Mims Engineers: Rick Engdahl, Dan Boyd
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