Amazon ranks as top 10 most evil company
2020-10-28
The Amazon company is ranked as one of the Top 10 most evil companies in the world
Learn why and what you can do about it
What is the problem with Amazon exactly?
The Amazon company is responsible for
- anti-competitive behavior
- monopolistic behavior
- serious antitrust concerns
- tax evasion
- hybrid business acting as platform and selling own products leading to conflict of interest, COI
- company culture resembling a cult
- harrassment of Amazon workers trying to form unions
What can I do?
- Tell others about the facts of the Amazon company
- Help spread this information
- Do not buy at Amazon or use their services
References with additional information
# Anti-competition, anti-trust, monopolistic behaviour (monopsony)
Report: Amazon’s Stranglehold: How the Company’s Tightening Grip on the Economy Is Stifling Competition, Eroding Jobs, and Threatening Communities
https://ilsr.org/amazon-stranglehold/
Amazon Could Have a Very Real Antitrust Problem
https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/10/14/amazon-could-have-a-very-real-antitrust-problem.aspx
EU Starts Preliminary Probe into Amazon's Treatment of Merchants
https://www.wsj.com/articles/european-union-probing-amazon-s-treatment-of-merchants-using-its-platform-1537367673
The FTC is looking into the Amazon and Apple deal that crushed small resellers, serious antitrust concerns
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/2/20751482/ftc-amazon-apple-iphone-reseller-agreement-antitrust
Amazon to Face Antitrust Charges From EU Over Treatment of Third-Party Sellers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-to-face-antitrust-charges-from-eu-over-treatment-of-third-party-sellers-11591871818
Antitrust: Commission opens investigation into possible anti-competitive conduct of Amazon
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/mt/ip_19_4291
Small resellers not allowed to sell refurbished Apple products on Amazon
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/21/18624846/amazon-marketplace-apple-deal-iphones-mac-third-party-sellers-john-bumstead
Amazon slashes commission rates for program that gives publishers a cut of sales. : news
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/g1e7l6/amazon_slashes_commission_rates_for_program_that/
Amazon Is Quietly Building Its Own Private Label Empire
The silent explosion of AmazonBasics illustrates the hazards of doing business with the world's largest e-commerce giant.
https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/04/27/amazon-is-quietly-building-its-own-private-label-e.aspx
Jeff Bezos world's first trillionaire sparks heates debate
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/05/14/jeff-bezos-worlds-first-trillionaire-sparks-heated-debate/5189161002/
Monopsony gives tech giants enormous power—but could be their undoing
https://www.fastcompany.com/90352975/why-monopsonies-not-monopolies-are-the-tech-industrys-biggest-threat
Amazon’s Monopsony Is Not O.K.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/20/opinion/paul-krugman-amazons-monopsony-is-not-ok.html
# Tax evasion, tax avoidance and other unethical competition practices
Less tax paid by Amazon = more tax paid by you, me and good companies that do right!
New study deems Amazon worst for 'aggressive' tax avoidance
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/dec/02/new-study-deems-amazon-worst-for-aggressive-tax-avoidance
How Amazon avoids paying taxes - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-not-paying-taxes-trump-bezos-2018-4
Amazon had to pay federal income tax for the first time since 2016
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/04/amazon-had-to-pay-federal-income-taxes-for-the-first-time-since-2016.html
How Amazon finds tax loopholes
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/04/amazon-tax-loopholes-us
Amazon investigated by UK authorities over tax avoidance
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/amazon-investigated-by-uk-authorities-over-tax-avoidance-7622019.html
How to pay $20 million tax on more than $1 billion in revenue — ask Amazon Australia
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-21/how-amazon-australia-shifts-income-offshore-to-reduce-tax/11719232
Amazon May Pay No Federal Income Taxes. Here's Why
https://fortune.com/2019/03/01/amazon-federal-corporate-income-tax/
Starbucks, Google and Amazon grilled over tax avoidance
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20288077
Amazon: £7bn sales, no UK corporation tax
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/04/amazon-british-operation-corporation-tax
How to Stop the Amazon Extortion From Happening Again
https://splinternews.com/how-to-stop-the-amazon-extortion-from-happening-again-1830406069
Amazon’s HQ2 was a con, not a contest
https://www.vox.com/2018/11/9/18077342/amazon-hq2-headquarters-jeff-bezos-dc-ny-virginia-long-island-kara-swisher-scott-galloway
Silicon Valley giants accused of avoiding 100 billion USD in taxes
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/02/silicon-valley-giants-accused-of-avoiding-100-billion-in-taxes.html
# Horrific working conditions and anti-union rights
Would you like to work under these conditions? Let us give them a helping hand.
Amazon fires New York worker who led strike over coronavirus concerns
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/31/amazon-strike-worker-fired-organizing-walkout-chris-smallls
New York Mayor, Attorney General Seek Investigations Over Fired Amazon Worker
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/824423595/new-york-attorney-general-seeks-investigation-over-fired-amazon-warehouse-worker?t=1600595113708
Amazon fires two tech workers who criticized the company's warehouse workplace conditions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/13/amazon-workers-fired/
Longtime Amazon VP Tim Bray just quit in dismay, calling the company 'chickens---' for firing workers who criticized it
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-engineer-resigned-treatment-warehouse-whistleblowers-2020-5
UK workforce attacks Amazon, accused over wages and conditions
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2001/apr/14/internetnews.uknews
Exposing Brutal Conditions at Amazon.com Warehouse
https://bigthink.com/focal-point/spencer-soper-wins-sidney-award-for-exposing-brutal-conditions-at-amazoncom-warehouse
Amazon U.K. accused of sweatshop conditions
https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-u-k-accused-of-sweatshop-conditions/
Amazon accused of 'intolerable conditions' at Scottish warehouse
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/11/amazon-accused-of-intolerable-conditions-at-scottish-warehouse
Amazon drivers ‘forced to urinate in bottles to keep on top of deliveries’
https://metro.co.uk/2017/12/11/amazon-drivers-forced-urinate-bottles-keep-top-deliveries-7151258/?ito=cbshare
Amazon Warehouse Staff In 'Slave Camp' Conditions, Workers Say
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/25/amazon-staff-investigation_n_4335894.html
Anger at Amazon working conditions
https://www.channel4.com/news/anger-at-amazon-working-conditions
The Pandemic Has Ended the Amazon Debate
It’s clearer than ever that supporting Amazon is a tacit endorsement of abusive work policies and more
https://onezero.medium.com/its-now-100-unethical-to-shop-on-amazon-48d553181a6c
U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Amazon Worker Security Screening Case is Clear Victory for Employers
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/us-supreme-court-decision-amazon-worker-security-screening-case-clear-victory-employ
Amazon-owned Whole Foods is quietly tracking its employees with a heat map tool that ranks which stores are most at risk of unionizing
https://www.businessinsider.com/whole-foods-tracks-unionization-risk-with-heat-map-2020-1?r=US&IR=T
Amazon drivers 'work illegal hours'
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-37708996
A day in the life of an Amazon delivery driver
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-37912858
Amazon Staff Lose Hazard Pay—and Lives—as Bezos Cashes In
https://www.thedailybeast.com/amazon-staff-lose-hazard-payand-livesas-bezos-cashes-in