What.
Amazon as a company have created enormous value for all of its clients, created thousands of jobs and value for it's trading partners. It's one of the forces that work to eradicate poverty in modern world, not the other way around.
Amazon’s unconstrained growth relies on a model that allows for limitless externalities and this requires limitless resources both as direct inputs to production and cheap or free pricing of waste handling and social costs, in order to capture the value creation and offload the costs for its customers and investors.
Continue questioning them about employment practices and keep them ethical (they are raising minimum wage to $15/hr) but Amazon hate is often misplaced.
Also kindle workshops are considered sweat shops, and that’s by Chinese standards so imagine...
> It’s a presentation by an ex-hedge fund guy on a profit play
Yeah, the last 20 years almost of him investing in his dream that he has been talking about since he went to school is clearly a massive for profit play.