Episode 128
How Amazon and Salesforce Whitewash Corporate Evil
Summary:
Amazon and Salesforce want you to think they’re the good guys. In reality, they’re cashing checks from corrupt regimes and painting over human rights violations with PR puff pieces. In this short but scathing episode, Dr. Jim calls BS on corporate whitewashing and exposes how these tech giants are enabling modern-day oppression—while patting themselves on the back.
Chapters:
00:00 Corporate Deception: The Bottom Line
00:20 Amazon's Dark Side: Worker Exploitation and Pollution
01:22 Amazon's PR Tactics: Whitewashing Their Image
02:56 Salesforce's Controversial Alliances
04:18 Tech Giants and Government Handouts
05:07 The Oligarchs' Vision: A Two-Tiered Society
05:23 Call to Action: Breaking Up Corporate Power
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Left in Exile Intro
Left in Exile Intro
Transcript
First, let's take a look at Amazon., Amazon. Is a company that literally is built on the bodies of its workers on the warehouse floors. If you think back to the height of the pandemic, and in other instances, Amazon has had a reputation for having some of the worst working conditions you can ever think of.
It's one step removed from being a sweatshop. We all remember those occasions where warehouse workers were literally dropping dead, and Amazon instructed their employees to keep working.
gest polluters in the world. [:Now, what is Amazon doing to try to whitewash their actual record? They're putting out puff pieces in publications to talk about all the humanitarian work that they're doing.
ut there doing good work for [:Let's not be fooled by what Amazon are doing. These are companies that pay Bottom of the barrel dollars, exploit their employees, create terrible working conditions to the benefit of their executives, and then expect you to be placated with puff pieces like this. The reality of it is that this company, just like many of the other tech bro giants that are out there, is a predatory force.
And many of the problems that we have in society today is a direct result of companies like Amazon exploiting the consumer and exploiting their employees to the benefit of their C-suite.
no bones about the evil that [:Let's understand what this means. Ice, an agency that is the equivalent of the modern day Gestapo is having tremendous trouble recruiting because, shocker, a lot of people don't wanna work for the modern day Gestapo, Salesforce. Wants to get access to government contracts, which is typically what happens when companies become so big that they don't care to innovate and there are no other companies to go ahead and gobble up.
overnment agency that is the [:Is this what you want to be known for as a CEO? Is this how you want to be remembered when history looks back on your role during these times?
Salesforce and Amazon aren't alone when it comes to underhanded, double dealing and especially in aligning themselves with. Many of the evil things that governments around the world do. In fact, when you look at every big US tech player, every single one of them, for the most part, has done whatever they can to kiss up to the Diapered orange dementia patient that is in charge of this regime and do whatever they can so that they can.
Get more handouts as part of the favored crew.
isto fascist regime and this [:A society that is run by the oligarchs and their various CEOs and their little fiefdoms, and everybody else who just serves the role as being a cog in the wheel. We're well past the time where every single one of these companies and every single one of their executive boards and every single one of their senior employees need to be busted up in every sense of the phrase
