Communities and Environments

"[W]ith competition from internet advertising having decimated newspaper advertising, The Seattle Times ... would sell its headquarters to a developer; the developer planned to retain the facade- it had a nice nostalgic look - and turn the rest into high-end office space.

Most of Amazon's sales don't come from its own brands - they're from products sold by third parties... The Wall Street Journal ... [found] that third-party sellers on Amazon had employed people at factories known to be dangerous and had sold unsafe products. Then there are the warehouses where people pack and ship orders. In the United States, among warehouse and storage facilities with at least 1,000 workers, Amazon accounts for 79 percent of employment and 86 percent of injuries... 

Amazon's business uses natural resources, too. Its annual carbon emissions have grown 35 percent since 2019, and a group of its own employees, calling themselves Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, said that a recent Amazon claim - that it had reached its goal of matching 100 percent of its energy use with investment in sources that don't produce greenhouse-gas emissions - used 'creative accounting' to come to misleading conclusions (an allegation that Amazon disputes)." 

- From the chapter, "I Gifted It to Them," p.36,41 
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age