Amazon treating humans like servers. When you need to scale fast you fire up some more and when you're done you shut them down. That's basically what's happening here. Question is, are we OK with it...?
While it had been mentioned in the past, it was the delivery on a Sunday that really helped drive the point home, somehow.
(My money is it's other reasons, and thus the idea of "we must pressure our political leaders! is just a feel good thing we tell ourselves because the truth is very unpleasant to acknowledge)
Between Andrew Jackson to U.S. Grant, there were no 2 term presidents. Maybe they knew something we didn't.
While I don’t morally agree with Amazon policies, we must understand that companies will always optimize to win the capitalism’s game whatever the human cost.
However, as a society, our role is not to ask Amazon (or whatever misbehaving company) to stop being bad guys, but to change the rules of the game so that immoral behavior ceases to be a competitive advantage.
Plus, you really have to have 50% + 1 to make a difference, and then there are still mechanisms against you. You just need to come up with half of $1.74 trillion as of today, and of course enough people who want to sell.
No, I think there are more effective strategies than that.
A lot of AGMs are simply rubber-stamping exercises (look at how many directors are voted in again and again with 80-95% of the vote?!) It does not have to be this way.
You don't have to literally own Amazon to change their ways - in theory you can buy one share and ask some pointed questions at the AGM. If the other shareholders see that change is in their best interest, they will vote accordingly. Sadly, most are asleep at the wheel.