a 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, the whole earth catalogue was part of the movement in this publication was created by steward brand, a former biology student, and a jack of all trades he wanted to help to middle is find everything they needed to fend for themselves by showing them where to buy all the necessary tools ah, so weird because so these people are going to build farms. but what kind of tools 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. catalogue is absolutely central to the counterculture and to the commune, movement of the late 900 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 catalog 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 id listed, 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 catalog, it is trying to give you access to goods that will transform your life and it is

trying to be whole. it is 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. it's the catalog online. banks to the internet has amazon globalized the ideals of the whole earth catalogue. today, stewart brand, its founder, has a very rich friend, jeff bezos. ah, affinities 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 1900 sixty's, the hope of a better world through consumption, through interconnected information systems, that's gone, at least has 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 on long shribel. bish house. good morning if you don't like fish been i don't feel fish when they say john, august 2000 if i'm not so unlike fish when you pick make a decision of a few says under common impression finished in your course of title receive. so pick and picking 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. that akins all that stuff and that's what test comes to phillips when she isn't immensely trying to pass built. i've put a time on the under him. how're mish says mister anthony? i think i'll take it to log onto the, i'm thinking i'll pick it up. so when i was in an articulate and protection for patterns on the have also the home is the things you can be the hold on. give them my i'm talk most speak even in the same house in the whole month. there's not from the 1000 lives in john law and up i a couple of cruises because i'm supply went

from seizures, cancer due to the most, not for the thousands of you know, you have a scanner that there is a line that in your where you have to go you, when you pack, you have to move the way where computers then and this conners and managers and teachers and leaders teach you to make so called equation of movement. so 1st you take there, can this have to park like this? and you're talking to the line and you really have to follow all this movements. there's something new in the sense that you work as a machine, but you are also controlled by machines. and this is something scary if you don't follow this, read them off the that the corporation push on you. you are just not accepted. they tell you if you don't like walking here, you just go, we don't want,

we don't want to have workers. when does mister johnson from a 1000? nothing was missing to the land by an s, as in this, as a boy out since on file. and that's been the place in effect and burn out in the window for the guys to go in the for the 100 papers. this is the house for the long distance. the police are and for the one i did with 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, why need bought about going to be done to dollars roller to lose. i'm the europe,

jeff bezos is facing strong states or social protections are especially important and where employees have more labor, right? if or not. and if you do a full 8 of them, i was just like through the last 5 years verity the main german union has been organizing strikes in the countries 11 amazon warehouses, the bookcase into foreigners. what you know, 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. 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 do anything new or innovative, you have to be willing to be misunderstood. if you cannot, if you can't afford to be misunderstood,

then for goodness sake don't do anything new or innovative. i am 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 to go, 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 our 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 of 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 owns 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 ah

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 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 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 one that makes no strictly no borders, adams, my number is emerge. we don't have a therapy. we go to the back seen the whole world leads to take action and be ready for people who judge no. 2 permanent crisis,

we can do better, we should be better. everyone is contributing each in their own way, but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is paid for the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are together in you know, look at that low ball, low ball latan, and me say, what's happening as the ball ball bang, perpetuate there lobo money thing the, the me 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. the 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 amazons for its tax arrangements. the commission has today adopted a decision that i'm a some tax benefits are illegal on the you state aid rooms.

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 euro plus interest. amazon paid the 250000000, but luxembourg appealed the decision. not all states endorsed the commissioners 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 that 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 a eager also to have a sort of broad european digital taxation is to make sure that we get to right. because digital 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 gaffer, including amazon this new tax would levy the revenues and not their profits. since these web giants usually store away their profits in 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 oh, that's a bad sight to everything. that's a fetch our democracy. that'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, that's a great thing that we built. but as i said, if i put my head of being a citizen that on

a lot more. busy questioning of what do i really feel, any fraud 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 basis 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 of and young and very well paid. they can take full advantage of the amazon way of life and can preview much of the companies, innovations lockers where you can pick up your packages at any

time. or amazon go supermarkets, where no check out is required for 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. me here. 30 percent of the homeless population is employed at city hall, seattle's younger city, counsellor theresa mosquito made housing the priority ever 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 cities 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 are 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 back 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 tax asian policy, whereas for i want only to council members, including theresa most gate a voted against the repeal of attacks. must get a vote for ne o'brian vote for i 7 in favor to the, to the bill. passes in the share with sign it me 3 months later, jeff visa 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 . ready ready every night and seattle city hall opens its doors to provide a place to sleep on the floor, to those who have nowhere else to go

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