ah, the whole earth catalogue was part of the movement. this publication was created by steward, brand, a former biology student, and a jack of all trades. he wanted to help communities find everything they needed to fend for themselves by showing them where to buy all the necessary tools. ah, so weird because right, 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 catalog is absolutely central to the counterculture and to the the commune movement of the late 19th 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, where 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 on life. thanks 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, me use 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, at least has gone to 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, fish and oscar box and i want to be like fish in fish are going to say it's leaving john august 2000 if by online so unlike fish when you pick make a decision of a few says uncommon incision finished in the course of title receive. so pick and taking 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 sets up

when she isn't in mental built. i've put her time on the phone in holland, michigan. there's michigan. i and i, i think i'll take a log on and i'm thinking i'll take it up to when i'm in an articulate and protection for patterns on the have also the home is the things you can do to hold on give them food for my. i'm talk most most gave them the same. how isn't my in the home, there's not from the 1000 lives in john law and up i a couple issues because it wouldn't from seizures. cancer. do you think that most thousands of you know, if you have a scanner, there's 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 neither teach you to make so called 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 movement. and there's something new in the sense that you work a machine, but who 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 happy workers. when mr. johnson from 1000 my mom was mission to the plan by and in this basically it's like, you know, for out since on file. and that's been the effect and burn out a published in the for the guys pick up the phone. good. pick this,

this is the household on investments, the procedures are and for the ones with all the hope and for the woman i know ah, in germany on black friday, the unions are calling for a strike. google. but like thought, why need bought about going to be done to dollars rather than the zine. that's a europe jeff bezos is facing strong states where social protections are especially important and where employees have more labor. right. and if not, if you do a fleet of them, i go through the last 5 years verity the main german union has been organizing

strikes in the countries 11 amazon warehouses. i'm so sorry for what you mean that the workers are mainly asking for wage increases. thanks to these mobilize ations, the leipzig warehouse workers has successfully increase their wages by 11.2 percent in the last 5 years. i'm going to 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 is implying 566000 people. you know, probably the biggest upgrade of recent times. at the same time you gradually criticize 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, 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 to i love to work. so we can live mars, 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 thank you. it has to be very nice. thank you. in 2017 amazon made $178000000000.00 in total revenue. the multinational is crushing all its competitors in 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 in 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. 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 money 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 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 they could stop amazon today would be government intervention. 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, a very critical time. time to sit down and talk with the i

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me and 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 $13000000.00 in 2017. in europe alone, they add up to at least 2000000 euros. with will just basis use this money to counter 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 for stacks arrangements.

the commission has today adopted a decision that i'm a some tax benefits illegal under use state aid rules attacks ruling granted by luxembourg has reduced the tax bill in more than 8. yes. 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 luxembourg appeal. the decision? not all states endorsed 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 a eager also to have a sort of broad european digital taxation is to make sure that that we get to right . because judges from 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 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 that'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. what i'm buying or receiving packages or i have friends who are doing like yes,

also man as a great thing that we built. but as i said, if i put my head of being a citizen, they don't know more. busy questioning of what do i really feel, any fraud and that i think most of the time i, i, i feel almost the opposite that 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. the series of hash balls sheltering rare tropical plants, like a bio to a 2 point oh, 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 check out 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. me. 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 a shout, a 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 in otherwise affordable rental units really have nowhere to go. they're falling into the street or they are getting displaced 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 as 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 live 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 multinationals, 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 and the red against green protests against anti tax herbal. quickly the city council voted to reverse its new tax asian policy, whereas vote for i won only 2 council members, including theresa mosquito voted against the repeal of attacks. must get a vote for ne o'brian vote for i 7 in favor to oppose the for the bill passes in the share with sign it me 3 months later,

just 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 were 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 who've been elected to do so. me . ready ready every night and seattle city home opens its doors to provide a place to sleep on the floor,

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