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171 | Christopher Mims on Our Interconnected Industrial Ecology

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Challenge of Amazon and the Workforce Crisis?

Amazon has been in such high growth mod for so long that the people in charge, whether it was a conscious decision not, have been like, ok, if were going to make this business big and profitable, this is the pace of work that we need to set. And i think the challenge that amazon has now is they're bigger, they are more mature. There's more scrutiny, but just as importantly, the labor market is starting to do its job. Economics is working in that, um, there are so many fulfilment centers. Every one does now, because it's a labor shortage, especially for blue collar workers,. That ou no raising wages is no longer enough.

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