How Amazon Exploited a Weakened America
The immense power of Jeff Bezos’s empire reveals a country that has been falling apart for quite some time.
ILLUSTRATION BY BEN JONES
During the Covid-19 pandemic, one in four Americans has struggled to pay their bills, and as of mid-January, unemployment claims surpassed those of the Great Recession for the forty-third straight week. As of February, more than 24 million people reported that their households sometimes didn’t have enough to eat. Many lower-income Americans continued to report for in-person jobs without proper protective equipment in dangerously crowded environments like meatpacking plants, warehouses, and hospitals.