Cory Doctorow
speaker
525 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So this is easier.
Yeah, we can handle this okay.
Charlie Chaplin getting sucked in the machine and ground up by the gears in modern times.
And, you know, we get to the modern day and we see Jeff Bezos' Amazon warehouses, which are the most automated warehouses anyone has ever built.
They also have the highest rate of injury, triple the national average for warehouse work.
And that's not a coincidence, it's the consequence.
When you spend seven figures on warehouse automation, you are not going to run that system slower than you need to.
And since the human is the bottleneck, that means the human's working as fast as they can for as long as they can.
And anyone who's ever tried to do that knows that eventually you make a mistake.
And in a warehouse, that might mean you get impaled on a forklift.
Yes, the rate of injury in an Amazon warehouse is about triple the national average.
And those are very serious injuries often, trying to make a quota.
In order to make that quota, you are not given enough time to pee.
This is the same as the drivers, right?
Drivers, warehouse workers.
For a guy with a penis-shaped rocket, Jeff Bezos really hates our kidneys.
It's awfully strange.
And so the workstations around warehouse workers and the workstations near the drivers, the cockpit of the van, filled with bottles of pee.
On top of all of that, there are routine indignities.
So you might have to wait for an hour to get to the job and wait for an hour once you've left the job because they're going to search you on the way in and out.
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