Having warehouse workers is not Amazon's long term plan. They will replace as many workers with robots as quickly as they can. Their strategy revolves around burning out the entire workforce and then perfecting their robots before they need to pay truly absurd packages. Since the workers are a short term solution treating them poorly and using ads to reel more suckers in is a viable strategy. The question is will they run out of people before they can fully automate?

This sounds so close to Uber's strategy from the mid-20teens of having huge incentives / gamification for drivers (up to and including offering to finance car loans to get more drivers) but it'll all be okay because in Just A Few More Years they'll have perfected the robotaxi and they can dump all the humans.

It's disgusting to treat people this way. You can replace people with robots and still treat them with respect.

I don't see it being very long until people get out their pitchforks.

Amazon has never struck me as a company that would prioritize doing the right thing.

Most companies irrationally value growth.

Most of them are cancerous because of it.