and, ah, ah, the whole earth catalogue was part of the movement. this publication was created by steward brand, a former biology student, and 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. so weird because right, so these people are going to build farms, but what kind of tools are they take? will 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 minds catalog is absolutely central to the counterculture and to that, 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 reimagined 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 ne 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 if the catalog on life banks to the internet has amazon globalized the ideals of the whole earth catalogue. today, steward, 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 1900 sixty's, the hope of a better world through consumption, through interconnected information systems, that's gone, this 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 long tribal. wish it wouldn't be like fish been, i don't feel fish are going to say john, august 2000 if by online so and like fish when you pick it up of a few says uncommon incision finished in your course and uptime. don't 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 comes up when she isn't in mental pain built, i've put a time under how and if there's i wish i and the for i think i'll take a log on and i'm thinking i'll take it up to when i open up the ticket and i'm protection for patterns on the have also the home is the things you can do, the whole business can keep them food for my. i'm talking about the same. how isn't my in the whole month? there's not from the $1000.00 and up i company, she is a foolish because it wouldn't from finish up to the most not him off can no, no, no not 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 the scanners and managers, and teachers and leaders teach you to make so called the question of movement. so 1st you take this hand 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 work a machine, but you are also controlled by machines. and this is something scary if you don't follow this, read them of 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 does your image does and you also from the 1000 my mom was mission to plan by and in this because you know

for out since on file and that's been the place effect and burn out a published indigo in the for the guys pick up the phone, good, pick this, this is the house for the long distance, the police are and for the one ending with all the hope and for the woman i know. ah, in germany on black friday, the unions are calling for a strike. oh, does it look like it's all private, bob? i thought it is. who knows? the banner stud muffin up knows go up. thank you soon. i'll give you my daughters, rod bugs, all, it's all good. good luck. that's it. that's what it was. i'm that's in europe. jeff bezos is facing strong stage where social protections are especially important ago and where employees have more labor rights. this is

a full knock them individual aiden for leaking out of them. august as plants are built for the last 5 years verde the main german union has been organizing strikes in the countries 11 amazon warehouses. i'm perfect, you know, i spoke heights in the foolish little humid i get 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. is more dollars done? good. 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 in,

protest in front of the building. standing alongside the germans to day or polish, italian and french workers. they are 1000 strong. welcome to berlin. thanks. it's great to be here today and is employing 566000 people. you know, probably the biggest dropped grade of recent times. at the same time, you're aggressively criticized by unions and by media for being 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. i, in germany, we employee 16000 people. we pay at the high end of the range for any comparable work, greater matter what test effort, but the law less. so we can live our. 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 to achieve thinking and congratulate. very nice. thank you. back 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 or 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 profits. mm. mm. mm 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 and 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 they could stop amazon today would be government intervention. ah, ah, nose incidents of havana syndrome, as you mentioned before, things like difficulty concentrating, insomnia, memory problems are stone vague as to be experienced by just about everyone who has ever lived in any given week me. right. and so now people all over the really, who are military personnel or intelligence officers or diplomats working for the american government, are now on the lookout for these anomalous health incidents. and literally, people are getting up in the morning and squeezing and attributing it to a van

a syndrome a mean because it's so bad with champs all down through here, calling this larry over here. so your camps are always a little nicer than this. this is evidence of absolute poverty despair, and people in our city and other cities all across america are living like this, where at the original need and village that opened up in 2018. and right now there's 31 homes on the property. it's a little over 4 acres with 31 homes and a community center. unfortunately, a lot of people don't make it out of edition more homelessness, like, i'm sure a happy had made it bad you with,

ah, ah, 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 jeff bezos used this money to counter a less than accommodating europe in 2017. for the 1st time, the european commission decided to attack the company. margaret vis hillier european commissioner for competition sanctioned amazon for its tax management

and the commission has today adopted a decision that amazon's tax benefits are illegal. under you stated rules, a tax ruling granted by luxemburg has reduced amazon'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. i $250000000.00 euros plus interest. amazon paid the $250000000.00 luxemburg appeal, the decision not all states endorsed the commissioner's approach, nor to the also court other measures that promote tax furnace the thing with with amazon, 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 are also to have a sort of broad european digital sex ation, is to make sure that that we get it right. because the digital companies on average pay 90 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. we have oh, had a wake up call to say why yes, technology is fascinating and it produces say great things that we can do that. oh, there's a bad sight to everything there. so fetch our democracy. there's a threat to the way we do business. that is 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 went on buying stuff on amazon or receiving packages, or i have friends who do you like. yes. also, you know, written as

a great thing that we built, but as i said, if i put in my other half hex, of being a citizen, that on 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 help to create something that may not help to really be a net good in the world. the issue of who shapes the future of our country. is it us or is an 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 jeff 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 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 entered 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 about 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 sit 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 know where 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 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 multi nationals 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 screen protests against anti tax herbal. quickly the city council voted to reverse its move back station 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, jeff visa announced the launching of his own housing policy in

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 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,

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