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"Americans who might once have felt qualms about buying from Amazon now have social license to do so — it has become our cause larger than ourselves to fulfill our needs online. By placing a one-click order, we have been helping to flatten the curve." https://www.nytimes.com/es/2020/11/27/opinion/sunday/online-shopping-retail-covid.html
Meanwhile, from @KYWeise: "Amazon added 427,300 employees between January and October, pushing its work force to more than 1.2 million globally, up more than 50 percent from a year ago. Its number of workers now approaches the entire population of Dallas." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/technology/pushed-by-pandemic-amazon-goes-on-a-hiring-spree-without-equal.html
"Ms. Liljegren is by herself all day in a 10-ft-long area where she takes hundreds of items an hour from containers and stows them inside tall shelves. The shelves move around using robotic devices, stopping in front of her when she needs to stow items." https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-amazon-warehouse-worker-11606127400
