To the Editor:
Amazon workers, former and current, complain about the punishing hours and competitive pressure at this growing monopoly. But no one seems to question its central mission, which is the delivery of goods Americans don’t even know they want at cheap prices and blistering speeds.
Amazon has doomed chain retailers like Borders, wreaked havoc on publishing economics and taken aim at the U.S. Postal Service, FedEx and U.P.S. with its drone delivery plans. It’s no surprise, then, that Amazon expects employees to sacrifice family values and personal health. No institution, social or economic, is safe from Amazon’s avaricious methods of operation.
While Amazon’s treatment of its workers deserves scrutiny, we should also ask why such a company is thriving in our culture, and what else we must sacrifice at its altar of profit at any cost.
BETTY J. COTTER
Wakefield, R.I.
