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You have to choose between being a human or having a job.

It's not Amazon, the whole modern society works like this.

Humans are social by nature, but since childhood we are forced to avoid deep and meaningful relationships because everybody is a competitor, the "enemy" you should leave behind.

Instead of living, we are trained to perform and win over the competition.

Instead of making friends, we push people away and divide people into groups of winners and losers.

Instead of feel like humans, we are forced to ignore the feelings to keep going, keep performing, just like we were all machines.

And at the end, if you cannot keep up, you are discarded like trash, because you are no longer contributing to your employer's revenues goals.



> It's not Amazon, the whole modern society works like this.

Don't let Amazon off the hook like this.


I am not exempting Amazon here.

What I'm trying to say is that it's Amazon and everybody else.

These days people tend to focus on tech companies, but they forget about gas, oil, telecom, pharma, food, and many other sectors with the same behavior.

For example, 10 years ago I had a contractor doing a job at Monsanto. He needed to bring his own water because Monsanto's employees were forbidden to give water to contractors.




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