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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by taurath on Friday July 30, 2021 @07:03PM (#28013494)
I think a fully automated amazon without a large local workforce and therefor a large local TAXBASE is going to be a huge target for regulatory enforcement.
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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by XorNot on Friday July 30, 2021 @08:59PM (#28014226)
How? If the workforce isn't local, then there's no citizens involved which US law applies too.
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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by topkai22 on Friday July 30, 2021 @09:18PM (#28014342)
Reducing jobs reduces overall political support, which makes it more attractive for politicians and regulators to pass new laws or more aggressively pursue existing ones. Amazon could get hit with antitrust or some other new legal theory that develops.
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Re:1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee by kortilla on Friday July 30, 2021 @09:41PM (#28014449)
Those warehouses have to go somewhere and politicians are much more likely to initiate a shakedown when non of their constituents benefit.
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