Amazon Has Transformed the Geography of Wealth and Power (union, company, interest)

[Cida]

This is a pretty wide-ranging article in The Atlantic, but there's an interesting emphasis on Big Tech being a major negative factor.


Amazon Has Transformed the Geography of Wealth and Power
Understanding America in the giant company’s shadow
The superficially equalizing promise that customers everywhere can enjoy unprecedented convenience with a mere click has intensified the differences in the choices available to the rich and the poor. MacGillis describes how, while rich corporations and their top employees have settled in a small number of wealthy coastal cities, the rest of the American landscape has been leached of opportunities.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...amazon/617796/

[moguldreamer]

Seems more appropriate in Politics. The author, Vauhini Vara, clearly is not an economist nor has shown any evidence of economic thought processes.

She should probably stick to fiction.

Vauhini Vara is a Canadian-born American journalist, fiction writer, and the former business editor of The New Yorker

and

Vauhini Vara began writing her debut novel, “The Immortal King Rao: A Novel” in 2009, sold it to a publisher just before the pandemic hit in March 2020, and will see it published in hardcover by W.W. Norton & Company on May 3.

and the synopsis of her newly published novel:

In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmers. King Rao will grow up to be the most accomplished tech CEO in the world and, eventually, the leader of a global, corporate-led government.

In a future in which the world is run by the Board of Corporations, King’s daughter, Athena, reckons with his legacy—literally, for he has given her access to his memories, among other questionable gifts.

With climate change raging, Athena has come to believe that saving the planet and its Shareholders will require a radical act of communion—and so she sets out to tell the truth to the world’s Shareholders, in entrancing sensory detail, about King’s childhood on a South Indian coconut plantation; his migration to the U.S. to study engineering in a world transformed by globalization; his marriage to the ambitious artist with whom he changed the world; and, ultimately, his invention, under self-exile, of the most ambitious creation of his life—Athena herself.

https://www.amazon.com/Immortal-King...754/ref=sr_1_1

[mojo101]

reminds me of that person asked by her publisher to travel south and work for WMT,living in motel and ate carry out.

[fishbrains]

Originally Posted by moguldreamer

Seems more appropriate in Politics. The author, Vauhini Vara, clearly is not an economist nor has shown any evidence of economic thought processes.

She should probably stick to fiction.



and



and the synopsis of her newly published novel:




https://www.amazon.com/Immortal-King...754/ref=sr_1_1

Did you actually read the article before you launched an ad hominem attack on the author?

The article is a book review. She doesn't even attempt to address economics or make an economic argument. Nor does she address politics or make a political argument. She presents a summary of the book, which itself seems to write vignettes about Amazon worker's lives with the broad backdrop of globalization and the impact of the internet as an emergent technology.