The Joe Rogan Experience the country is
not about anything other than money I
mean we just abandon every value other
than
profit maximization and the bottom line
and that's what people need to
understand about all this woke [ __ ] yes
it's really not about changing culture
yeah it's about money I mean that's
that's about it you know it's just like
it's funny there's a big
um article in New York Times today about
inside an Amazon warehouse right and
Amazon was the first to say black lives
matter and put that a banner up on their
page and everything and look I support a
lot of goals of that movement but you
read through this article and you find
out first of all the way they treat
their largely black and brown warehouse
workers I mean it's despicable they
intentionally make sure they cannot move
up the ladder but that's part of their
business policies if you're an hourly
worker you're not going to get promoted
and they try to force you out after
three years because they think you're
getting lazy so this is the company that
can the surface level say black lives
matter because they think that's good
for their profit maximization and their
brand and their shareholder value at the
same time what they're actually doing in
real life wildly different than that so
and they specifically Target black and
brown people well they target their
warehouse workers who are so the
warehouse workers are 50 some percent
black and brown management is 50 some is
overwhelmingly white in Asian what is I
thought the whole thing about Amazon was
that you could move up the lab Walmart
who I'm also not a fan of they actually
promote from within so most Walmart
managers start out as hourly employees
so at least they have a track up and
again I'm not a fan of Walmart okay
Amazon intentionally and this is what
the New York Times revealed they
intentionally have a system because
Bezos said he believes that these human
beings are lazy and that after you know
that they're going to do the bare
minimum saying this Bezos is quoted two
years
I think there's a difference between
lazy and having a shitty job like people
need to understand that but in your
abuse you're treated like a robot and a
cog day in and day out you're fired like
if you are a little bit slow on your
task you might get fired by a freaking
app like that's explain humanizing let's
explain to people don't understand how
it works over there does anybody want to
I mean they work in the where right so
they have phones that are on there
everything's tracking your movements
steps bathroom breaks as well so the
warehouses are also very large so let's
say you technically have a 20 minute
break it might take you 10 minutes to
actually walk to the break room and back
so you actually have what like a two
minute break while you're in there and
the pull thing around Amazon and why
everyone should care is because Amazon
under the pandemic exploded their stock
price went up from I think 1 000 or so
to a cup three thousand Bezos personally
his wealth increased by 70 billion
dollars Amazon is now the second largest
employer in the United States and this
is incredibly important because as more
Amazon market adoption happens they are
basically going to become the employer
of choice whatever your grocery store or
whatever was in your small town these
are the rural working class Americans
This is their only job so when you have
one company which has all of this
overwhelming power over rural working
Americans and even Suburban Americans
because this is Amazon strategy Dayton
Ohio is a good example Alec McGillis he
wrote a great book on Amazon shout out
to him talked about how Dayton was like
this Silicon Valley of America in the
1900s you know it's manufacturing middle
class jobs now Dayton's prized economic
value comes from the fact that it's one
day's drive from one third of the U.S
population so it's a great place for
cardboard so everybody there is always
involved in creating cardboard and other
Amazon infrastructure so the
amazonification so to speak or whatever
of America makes it so that if let's say
30 years ago you grew up in your town
you may have to go to Walmart HEB we're
here you know I grew up here in Texas
Kroger as well McDonald's something like
that now it's basically like McDonald's
Dairy Queen and Amazon and when Amazon
is the prime Market employer where they
are the sole determiner of market
conditions increasingly so it's Walmart
and Amazon which are number two and
we're talking about millions of people
who are now working at this company so
people are like why do you guys talk so
much about Amazon because I can see the
trends this company's not going anywhere
look props to them like they're I love
Amazon like I order a lot of stuff on
Amazon but increasingly becoming aware
of the price of what it takes to do
overnight delivery to your house at 4am
in the morning or increasingly becoming
aware of the fact that they are
basically on this mission to drive price
down as much as possible and squeeze as
much out of their Workforce that is
where it's trouble what was the
furniture thing that we just covered
yeah this was crazy well and did you see
they're delivery drivers have so are so
like the the demands are so intense
they're having a pee in bottles and [ __ ]
and bags right and they admitted that
[ __ ] in bags literally yeah draw the
line I don't really care if a guy has
the peanut bottle but if a gal has to
pee like a dog bowl right
I would like to click the button that's
like I'll pay a little bit more if you
can promise me no driver had to [ __ ] in
a bag in order to get this tomorrow we
we kind of glossed over this thing where
you said that yeah
so here's here's what the New York Times
says Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos did not
want hourly workers to stick around for
long viewing a large disgruntled
Workforce as a threat
um this other executive recalled who
worked at Amazon but then left company
data showed that most employers became
less eager over time he said in Mr Bezos
believed people were inherently lazy
what he would say is that our nature as
humans is to expend as little energy as
possible to get what we want or need
that was embedded throughout the
business from the ease of instant
ordering to the pervasive use of data to
get the most out of employees so
guaranteed wage increases stop after
three years and Amazon provided
incentives for low-skilled employees to
leave so every year they would offer
Associates thousands of dollars to
resign they made sure that any position
they gave people sort of the illusion of
promotions being available but then
there'd be one promotion available for
hundreds of people and they very seldom
um
higher or higher management from within
their own ranks it's like they view us
it's totally class stratified as
basically the bottom line and of course
lower classes in America are
disproportionately black and brown it's
not like they're specifically targeting
black and brown people but you have one
class of people that they see that is
worthy of doing the grunt work and
[ __ ] in the bag and one class of
people that they think of is worthy of
like actually having the the more
intellectual jobs and running the place
it's you know it's a really abhorrent
way of viewing human beings essentially
and so this is part of the kind of again
rot of America that I also think is
reflected with the John Cena thing Etc
it's like you're certainly more of a
capitalist than I am but you can't have
a country where the only freaking value
is money like that's it's just it's just
you you see the sickness of people who
have all these addictions and or dot
last year was the worst year on record
for overdose that you see the suicide
rates Spike I mean you see people who
just feel like they have no meaning and
no purpose and no grounding and no
community and all the life being sucked
out of these human beings in these
communities it's just disgusting catch
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