de 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 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 has 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. this should been house. good morning. if you don't like fish been, i don't feel fish. when they say, john, august 2000. if by 2 and i fish

when you pick make a decision of a few says under common impression finished in your course of title with thief. 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. all that stuff and that's what comes up when she isn't meant to pass built. i've put a time on and often in house if says

mister anthony, i think i'll take a log onto the island. i'm thinking i'll take it up. so when i incident ticket infection, so for patterns on the have also the home is defined, you can get a hold on keep in mind i'm talk most speak 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 issues as approve this because i'm supply wouldn't from seizures. that's kind of the most not him off can no, no, no, no, no not 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 spends 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 park in the line and you really have to follow all this movements. there's

something new in the sense that you work a machine, but you're also controlled by machines. and this is something scary if you don't follow this, read them of 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 your mystery in the office in a 1000? my mom was missing the land by an s. as in this basically as a boy out since the fall. that's been the place in effect and burn out in the window for the guys to get wonderful. don't get picked is that since the household on investments, the police are in the middle of all the hope and for the woman and ah. ringback in

germany on black friday, the unions are calling for a strike. good. doesn't work. bunch like all right, me, bob. i thought it's not the banner side of those global. thank you sir. i'll give you my daughter's rob bugs. all, it's all good. good luck gothic. there's also a zine that's the europe. jeff bezos is facing strong states mer. social protections are especially important and where employees have more labor, right? if we'll knock them if you don't fall 8 of them august as plans are built for the last 5 years. verde the main german union has been organizing strikes in the countries 11 amazon warehouses. i am for dr. young. i spoke heights in the 4th amendment. i gave him the workers are mainly asking for wage increases.

thanks to these mobilizations, the leipzig warehouse workers have successfully increased their wages by 11.2 percent in the last 5 years. that there's more dollars that goes april 2018. the major german media group axle springer is about to award basil such prize 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 are polish, italian, and french workers. there are 1000 strong. welcome to berlin. thanks. it's great to be here today and was, is employing 566000 people. you know,

probably the biggest drop rate of recent times at the same time, you're aggressively criticized by union send 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. yet i'm very proud of our working conditions and i'm very proud of the wages that we pay in germany. we employee 16000 people. we pay at the high end of the range for any comparable work. we don't have a lot more less so we can live more. we have very good communications with our employees. we don't believe that we need

a union to be an intermediary between us or employes. congratulate you fall. you have achieved thinking that as a very nice thank you back in 2017 amazon made 178000000000 dollars 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 or material goods, but it's of strategic importance. the cloud and 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, which 60 percent of its products amazon a lot as a 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 on 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 could stop amazon today would be government intervention with

ah, and i make no sense, you know, borders line nationalities and you as a merge, we don't have a therapy. we don't have a vaccine. the whole world leads to take action to be ready. people are judgment, common crisis with we can do better, we should be doing better. everyone is contributing each in their own way. but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is great, the response has been massive, so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together with

oh, is your media a reflection of reality? in a world transformed what will make you feel safer? isolation, whole community, are you going the right way or are you being led somewhere? direct. what is true? wharf is great. in the world corrupted, you need to descend a join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. there may or may, we should all be may or may, we should all be angry because of what's going on. right.

can't understand united states history, understand the role that slavery play is already a very formal institution. by the time united states became a nation, it actually find the nation. the rise of capitalism is clearly on the backs of slight n slaved efforts. if you had investigated lynching said, a great extent. you believe that really in the country and the country still stands in brick? i'm from the south. everybody know, know what their failure to some extent, i would argue that we're still fighting the civil war. and the south is winning with aware of the risk amazon is increasingly nurturing its relationships with

governments. in 17 years, its lobbying expenses exploded. in the united states, they have 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 jeff bezos 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 for its taxes. arrangements as a commission has today adopted a decision that amazon's tax benefits ah, a legal and i used aid aid rules. a tax ruling granted by luxemburg

has reduced emerson's 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 luxemburg appeal, the decision. not all states endorsed the commissioner's approach, nor do they all support other measures that promote tax fairness. the thing with with amazon 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 are also to have a sort of broad european digital taxation is to make sure that we get it 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 and countries with low tax rate, france is alone in defending this initiative. and we have all had a wake up call to say, well, yes,

technology is fascinating and it produces say great things that we can do that. oh, there's bad sides to everything that says fetch our democracy. that's a threat to the way we do business. that the threats 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 with amazon overseeing packages or i have friends who do you like yes, also, you know? yeah. and that's a great thing to do that that we built. but as i said, if i put in my other hack hacks 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 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. in 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 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 tax asian 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 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 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 on

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know what they're saying. to some extent, i would argue that we're still fighting the civil war. and the south is winning in united states, sends a 2nd lethal aid shipment to ukraine while promising a severe united response from its allies if russia shows any aggression. but german segments suggest not everyone in the block is singing from the same song. the british media sounds the alarm over alleged aggression against ukraine is the foreign office claims. russia's plotting to put a pro russian candidate in charge something moscow denies. also on the way this out with k all said all of europe a fish stand off.