Warehouses are dirty, dangerous, and filthy. Every one has expectations for speed. People are a liability, not an asset.

I knew two people who worked at an Amazon warehouse. They both said it was pretty chill and easy. It's a matter of perspective and contrast.

Warehouses were always terrible, borderline cruel at some places. Amazon didn't invent them.

warehouse work has never been glamorous. it is grunt work. in a digital age where throughput gets measured and people become numbers in a chart it is easy to lose track of what reasonable is. what works elsewhere may not be appropriate.

Amazon gets called out because they are the biggest not because they are the worst. Same reason large fast good gets called out but local diners get a pass. the drudgery and low pay may be the same but the name recognition is not.

On a side note, As for Wal Mart, they were called out for similar reasons but also both are called out because setting wage floors especially through the of min wage laws in the US affect government payouts for unionized contracts.

Were they ever very innovative? Their initial success was pretty much based on having a bunch of investment capital and using it to kill their competition and grab market share without making profits for many years. Is it really very difficult to become an 'innovative' giant corporation when you've captured a huge part of the market like that?

It's easier to ignore because you don't have to walk into a physical store and see the effects. Instead you see a nice webpage that can ship things to your house in hours.

NPR podcast episode touching this question:

https://cpa.ds.npr.org/kuow/audio/2017/11/PRIMED_Episode4_0.... (Is Amazon your guilty pleasure?)

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/557820907/prime-d

By "let them get away with it", do you mean handed them your money in exchange for goods? This isn't their fault....just saying.

"is turning out"? It's been a long time...