going to build farms, but what kind of tools and they take, well, they take books. and that's because what people wanted in the communes was not just farm equipment, but consciousness, equipment they wanted to change their mind catalog is absolutely central to the counterculture and to the commune. movement of the late 19 sixty's. but it's also central to silicon valley. they found this world and they began to reimagine computers as the kinds of tools that the whole earth catalogue had promised. when i was young, there was an amazing publication called the whole earth catalogue, which was one of the bible's of my generation. it was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great notions on the back cover of their final issue. were the words stay hungry, stay foolish. it was their farewell message as they signed off, stay hungry, stay foolish. and i have always wished that for myself, you know,

when you look at the catalogue, it is trying to give you access to goods that will transform your life and it is trying to be whole. it was trying to literally be the whole world of goods. you can see that now in the amazon world on steroids, amazon is in many ways trying to be the whole world of access to the things you might want to buy in its structure in its interconnections, in its being a global information system to supply goods to make your life better in the catalog on life. thanks to the internet has amazon globalize the ideals of the whole earth catalogue? today, stewart brand, its founder, has a very rich friend, jeff bezos.

me affinity between hippies and wall street stop here. ah, jeff basis is a libertarian, advocating for small government, he values complete, entrepreneurial freedom, unimpeded by laws and regulations, with amazon burned off the social vision that animated so many in the $900.00 sixty's. the hope of a better world through consumption through interconnected information systems. that's gone, lease is gone for the consumers of amazon and it's gone along with my local bookstores. it's gone along with my local shops, it's gone. the civic world is not something that i see amazon carrying about at all . and i think that's a great shame. i think it's picked up on one on one of the core elements of the horse catalogue, but it's lost. whatever,

civic and vision animated the catalog. and that's a great shame. me the my name is alex. i'm known shribel fish and wouldn't be the fish been i don't feel fish are going to say john, august 2000 if by online so in that fish when you pick it up, a few says uncle inspection, finish in your course uptime. don't receive. so pick and

picking the ball before joining amazon, alexander was a soldier in the german army but in the warehouse he was confronted with a ruthless work culture where employees are treated like robots and all that stuff. and that's what comes up when i'm seasoned and mentioned in the past. i've put a time on the phone. him how're if says mister anthony, for i think i'll take a log onto the island. i'm thinking i'll take it up. so when i incident ticket and i'm protection for patterns on the have also the home is defined as most keep in

my i'm talk most most big even in size seems how isn't my in the whole month, there's not from the 1000 lives in john law and up i a couple ish, it's foolish because it wouldn't from just guns. do they think that most not for the thousands my mom can no, no, no, no, no, no you have a scanner. there's a line setting here where you have to go. when you pack, you have to move the way where a computer stands and this connors and managers, and teachers and leaders teach you to make so called a question of movement. so 1st you take there, can this have to park like this, and you park in the line and you really have to follow all this movements. and there's something new in the sense that you're at work a machine, but you're also controlled by machines. and this is something scary if you don't follow this, read them off the corporation. portion,

new york does not accept it. they tell you if you don't like walking here, you just go, we don't want, we don't want to have to workers. when does mister johnson from the 1000? my mother was mission to the land by an s, as in this basically as a new port out since the fall. that's been the place in effect and burn out when the guys got wonderful. don't get picked this. this is the house for the investments, the procedures are in the middle of all the hope and for the woman i know. oh i in germany on black friday, the unions are calling for a strike. google bunch like thought friday. bob, i'm going to be

open up the door. roland wilson resigned europe. jeff bezos is facing strong states or social protections are especially important and where employees have more labor, right? if not, if you do a in front of them, i was just like for the last 5 years, verity the main german union has been organizing strikes in the countries 11 amazon warehouses bookcases. what you mean that the workers are mainly asking for wage increases thanks to these mobilize ations, the leipzig warehouse workers have successfully increase their wages by 11.2 percent in the last 5 years. then the 2nd

april, 2018. the major german media group, axle springer is about to award basis. it's price for the most innovative person of the year. dirty has called on workers from all over europe to come and protest in front of the building. standing alongside the germans today or polish, italian and french workers. there are 1000 strong. he'll come to berlin. thanks. it's great to be here. today, amazon employing 566000 people. you know, probably the biggest upgrade of recent times. at the same time, you're relatively criticized by unions and by media for paying low wages for inappropriate working conditions. how do you deal with these accusations?

if you will do anything new or innovative? you have to be willing to be misunderstood. if you cannot, if you can't afford to be misunderstood, and for goodness sake, don't do anything new or innovative. i, i'm very proud of our working conditions and i'm very proud of the wages that we pay. i, germany, we employ 16000 people. we pay at the high end of the range for any comparable work. we went up so we can live, we have very good communications with our employees. we don't believe that we need a union to be an intermediary between us or employees. congratulate you for you. have to think it has to be very nice. thank you.

in 2017 amazon made $178000000000.00 in total revenue. the multinational is crushing all its competitors and online sales. but amazon is also the leader in another area. it has nothing to do with parcels and material goods, but it's of strategic importance. the cloud, an online data storage infrastructure, entire databases and web services are physically hosted and amazon's data centers. huge buildings filled with servers. ah, amazon own 120 data centers like this one spread around the world in 2017 amazon web services accounted for only 12 percent of its turnover, but 60 percent of its products. mm.

the the ah the amazon a lot of the retailer, but it's really, it's a mistake to think of amazon that way. amazon is a company that really wants to control the underlying infrastructure of the economy . so wants to be the platform on which all buying and selling happens. it wants to be basically the interface between all buyers and sellers. it is a major part of the, the cloud. it's amazon web services controls about a 3rd of the world's cloud computing capacity. and increasingly it's moving into

shipping and package delivery. there isn't anything in history that's quite like amazon. i mean, it's completely a new thing. we've never really encountered anything like this, but you can think about it in some ways, like a railroad in the sense that and that's what amazon controls and lots of other companies need access to that in order to get to market. that's an incredibly powerful position. i don't think amazon has any other competitor that could potentially challenge it. i think the only thing that good stuff amazon today would be government intervention. the me what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful,

very political time. time to sit down and talk a military mission against them will conclude on august 31st. i want to go to what i could go to young, go to do and i really want the proof for my you got to do something that company will cut the cut over the whatever the most. okay. that i'm going to get a quote to ship a minute. very good. this was the right weapon against the right? no, no, no, but i keep somebody go out to reveal the, the signing of the us to all about agreement. and i've laid the groundwork for the road ahead toward

a lasting peace in afghan. stan and i know we still need that mcdonald and her aware of the risk amazon is increasingly nurturing its relationships with governments. in 17 years, it's lobbying expenses exploded. in the united states, they've gone from $492000.00 in the year, 2000 to $13000000.20. in europe alone, they add up to at least 2000000 euros. with will just phases, use this money to counter a less than accommodating europe in 2017. for the 1st time,

the european commission decided to attack the company, margaret vest, hagar, european commissioner for competition sanctioned amazon french tax arrangements. and the commission has today adopted a decision that i'm a, some tax benefits illegal. on the you state aid rules. a tax routing granted by luxembourg has reduced the tax bill in more than 8 years between may 2006 and june 2014. it was not justified. amazon now has to repay the tax benefit worth around. $250000000.00 euros plus interest. amazon paid the $250000000.00 luxembourg appeal, the decision not all states endorse the commissioner's approach,

nor do they all support other measures that promote tax fairness and the thing with with emerson. and we know that from the tax case is that you don't necessarily make profits, but you create value. so you create value on the stock exchange, but you don't make profit in your business. so people make money by buying and selling stocks instead of making money by having a profits coming out of the business in itself. and one of the reasons why we are so eager also to have a sort of broad european digital taxation is to make sure that we get to right. because different companies on average pay 9 percent in tax. where ordinary businesses, on average pay 23 percent in tax, europe is trying to put in place a new tax that specifically targets gaffa,

including amazon. this new tax would levy the revenues and not their profits. since these web giants usually store away their profits and countries with low tax rates, france is alone in defending this initiative. we have all had a wake up call to say, well, yes, technology is fascinating and it produces great things that we can do. but there's a bad sight to everything that's a threat to our democracy. there's a threat to the way we do business. that's the threat for us as consumers to be respected in the marketplace. we need to getting control of that. so here it is. the world, according to amazon, a world where a single company controls the distribution of all our daily products. the infrastructure of our economy. when

i'm buying stuff or receiving packages or i have friends who are doing like yes, also man as a great thing that we built. but as a said, if i put my head of being a citizen, a lot more questioning of what do i really feel, any pride in that? i think most of the time i, i, i feel almost the opposite. really, i helped to create something that may not help to really be a net good in the world. so the issue is who shapes the future of our country? is it us? or is it amazon, you know, that's the question. me on the pacific coast in seattle, that question has already been answered

here. amazon is already imposing its vision of the world of tomorrow. at 1st glance, it's an ideal world. the company's headquarters are located in this building called day one. added to feed the brand new structure, wanted by just phases. a series of glass balls sheltering rare tropical plants like a bio to a 2.0 where amazon employees come to work in harmony with a domesticated nature. in total 20 percent of seattle's downtown area is occupied by amazon. ah,

in the last 2 years, 40000 new executives from around the world have joined the ranks of the american giant often young and very well paid. they can take full advantage of the amazon way of life and can preview much of the company's innovations lockers where you can pick up your packages at any time. or amazon go supermarkets where no checkout is required. customers enter with their smartphone and the computer automatically charges their account to welcome these new comers. luxurious buildings are constantly being constructed. thanks to amazon, seattle has become a favorite city for the american executive class. mm. but at night seattle becomes

a completely different city. since amazon's arrival with its numerous hires of senior executives, rents and seattle have been rising by 10 percent each year. ah, the poorest can no longer find housing even if they have a job. in here, 30 percent of the homeless population is employed at city hall, seattle's younger city, counsellor theresa mosquito made housing the priority of mandate me we saw out of 600 percent increase in

how and homelessness. and we saw twice the amount of people who are living in our v's become homeless. that number is immense. you can see the crisis of poverty and homelessness on the street. however, here in seattle, we have a higher rate of homelessness per capita than city like los angeles, which is a call for action. and it's imperative that we do something. we have a 1000 people who are moving to this region a week, which means that we're not building housing. the costs of housing increases people who were and otherwise affordable rental units really have nowhere to go. they're falling into the street or they are getting displeased and pushed out of seattle spring. 2018 city council proposes the creation of a new tax. the biggest companies in seattle, including amazon, will have to pay $500.00 per employee per year in order to finance the construction of social housing. we had initially proposed tax because you would have brought in $75000000.00 a year, which is a drop in the bucket of what we actually needed. we ended up with $47000000.00 per

year, which amazon agreed to. the proposal was passed unanimously, unanimously. by the council and signed by the mayor within 24 hours of amazon agreeing to that amount of taxing each corporation, $275.00 per head for 5 years, for just the largest company after they agreed to that within 24 hours, they changed their mind, they funded the opposition and ran a campaign to undermine it. amazon initiated a power struggle to push back on city council. seattle was divided to counter the multinational campaign citizens mobilized for social justice.

amazon won the battle of opinion. its petition gathered over 45000 signatures on june 12th, 2018. the seattle city council decided to hold a new vote on the tax in front of supporters of both sides the red against green protests against anti tax herbal. quickly the city council voted to reverse its new acts ation policy. whereas for i want only to council members including theresa most gator voted against the repeal of attacks. must get a vote for ne o'brian vote for i 7 in favor to oppose

to the bill passes in the share with sign it me 3 months later, jeff bezos announced the launching of his own housing policy. me a 2000000000 dollar private fund to help poorly house families across the country. i want to make sure that public policy is driven by those who are elected to pass public policy, not by the whims of one seal or one corporation. 11 day decides to donate money. i think it's a real warning signal to the entire country that we have got to be able to govern and do so with integrity, to make sure that our most vulnerable are being protected and invested in. we need public policy to be passed by those have been elected to do so me

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ah, this would have fundamental part of how our political leadership and our country at large, understood the bargain. you get a home and then you will rebel, right, as the things you don't revolt if you have a stake in the system. be really interesting to dial back and think about the longer deeper history of what housings meant in the united states. not just that old question of the american dream, but the bigger question of who the dream has been for ah, ah,

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