Posts by Azuaron@cyberpunk.lol
 (DIR) Post #AzT8paDJX3ki6ayeBM by Azuaron@cyberpunk.lol
       2025-10-22T13:46:20Z
       
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       @futurebird @davidho I don't know how official (or not) these statements were, but I do know that Amazon is probably at the forefront of funding and R&D for warehouse automation. Apparently they've deployed almost a million robots to their warehouses already--which, to be clear, did not replace a million jobs, but it certainly replaced more than a couple.I also know--and I know that Amazon knows--that they are literally going to run out of warehouse workers. The job is so grueling and underpaid that attrition is through the roof and in 2021 they were expecting to run out of workers by 2024. The bad economy has apparently stretched that out, but it is an ever-present threat and they really hate the obvious solutions of "paying people more" or, even worse, unions.Given those two realities, I think "hopes" is definitely the right word. I would even guess that the original context of these "hopes" were from middle managers making promises to upper management that they may not be able to cash.But, replacing on average 75,000 jobs per year for 8 years, out of the ~1 million positions they currently have (and growing)? I can't say that's impossible. If they make it happen, this is the kind of thing that's going to look like an "overnight success (but it took 20 years)".
       
 (DIR) Post #AzTHwqb9ucXuXHfXxA by Azuaron@cyberpunk.lol
       2025-10-22T15:28:35Z
       
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       @futurebird Where I really turned a corner on my thinking about consumer activism was when I started thinking about what it would mean to a local or small online shop that I was buying from instead of Amazon. It doesn't mean much to Amazon to lose my business, but it can mean a lot to other places to gain it.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2UjqLJnGXGmCg80PI by Azuaron@cyberpunk.lol
       2026-01-21T01:51:35Z
       
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       @aralW stands for “We.” Meanwhile, the first of the Vs that make up W stands for “Values,” and the second for “Verified.” The fact that W comes before X in the alphabet is certainly also a welcome coincidence.Oh, it's a fucking joke, all right.