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Many of these workers are from the prison industrial complex. Pay is non-existent or abysmally low, AFAIK.

Do you have any source for that? If anything, Amazon’s warehouse work is known for relatively high wages compared to other warehousing work.

It is a real problem. People think downvoting will make the problem disappear.

Link 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison%E2%80%93industrial_comp...

Link 2: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58e127cb1b10e31ed45b2...

Where exactly in these two links is anything about Amazon in particular?

Did you even read? The PDF has list of companies that form the prison-industrial complex and Amazon has a place there.

>> This report exposes over 3,100 corporations that profit from the devastating mass incarceration of our nation’s marginalized communities

What else do you expect me to do?

I expect you to tell me where in that PDF is anything supporting your original statement that "Many of these workers are from the prison industrial complex. Pay is non-existent or abysmally low, AFAIK.". That PDF puts Amazon on one huge list of companies, without saying in what exact manner it has anything to do with "prison-industrial complex" at all. Can you quote anything in that PDF that says anything specific about any connection of Amazon with prison-industrial complex?

I gave you enough info. If you are really interested, search on the internet.

You gave me none of the info, and I'm not going to waste my time on searching the internet to verify random claims the authors of which are unwilling to substantiate.

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