A report that points out that Amazon is a modern "robbery baron" appeared

"The work that goes away from Amazon is more than the work that Amazon creates and it is reducing the competition of various industries," so that Amazon pursues oligopoly and unfair business practices and dominates each industry Then it accumulated huge personal property "Baron thiefA report pointing out that it is similar to the one published was announced.

New study compare Amazon to 19th century robber barons, urges policymakers to break up the online retail giant - GeekWire
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Amazon employees exceeded 306,000 in the third quarter of 2016,Institute for Local Self-Reliance(ILSR)According to a survey released by Amazon, 145,000 people have lost their jobs in retail by Amazon expanding their warehouse. With the expansion of the warehouse, 135 million square feet (about 12.5 million square meters) of retail shops were settled and 700 large-scale retailers and 22,000 roadside shops were forced to close.

In addition, the report is spelled out as "wearing workers and pushing down wages" about the environment in the warehouse. ILSR examined 11 areas with Amazon warehouses in the United States and it turned out that wages on Amazon were 15% lower on average than wages in surrounding warehouses. As for the Seattle area where there are five Amazon warehouses, we found that wages are 18% lower than workers working in the surrounding warehouses. Olivia LaVecchia, one who conducted the survey, said, "Amazon has changed the way of the occupation that has given people satisfying living and wages so far and has transformed them into short-term things, I will automate my occupation. "


Problems that are erupting in the form accompanying the growth of Amazon include the rise of rents around the warehouse, the occurrence of traffic congestion, wage inequality, and others. Mr. Ed Murray of Mayor of Seattle also acknowledges the above problem, but on the other hand it expresses "It is a great problem accompanying growth".

The reason for the opinion that defends Amazon is because there are industries that will be revitalized by Amazon warehouse can do. The real estate industry is one such thing, as Amazon warehouses can do thousands of employees come to Seattle, housing construction will be thriving. In addition, in Washington, the real estate market boomed as Amazon got 35,000 people in a high salary position.

In response to this situation, ILSR was born in the Amazon in the 19th centuryBaron thiefIt is similar to that. A thief baron is a businessman or banker who has dominated each industry and saved a tremendous private property by pursuing oligopoly and unfair commercial habits.Standard oilMonopolized the oil market in the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century, Amazon's ambition for market monopoly is the same as that of Standard Oil, and as Standard Oil once used to control the oil industry, Amazon is 2016 Currently he is controlling mostly the book industry.

Amazon has increased its employees by 80,000 in 2016 and has 300,000 employees worldwide. We plan to increase the number of short-term employees by 120,000 to prepare for the holiday season in the USA. Also, Amazon has created more than 600,000 third party dealers in their marketplace, of which 70 thousand dealers claim sales of $ 100,000 a year (about 11 million yen).

Despite criticism, Amazon has continued to expand, has driven physical retailers to close down, and created a situation where individual retailers need to have a store in Amazon's marketplace to make money. This trend extends not only to the book field but also to food and other fields.

"Amazon is increasingly controlling the underlying infrastructure of the economy, Amazon's third-party marketplace, deployed by Amazon, is the dominant platform in digital commerce and Amazon's web services Is the backbone of various people in the United States, from Netflix users to CIA staff.Warehouse and brokerage exist in almost all major American cities, and by creating competition not only their own but also other companies' delivery By controlling the important infrastructure like this, Amazon defeats competitors and at the same time rivals are making a mechanism to use their markets, "the report says .

The report also told that Amazon received 613 million dollars (about 70 billion yen) from a public organization in 2005. Approximately half of the existing 77 Amazon warehouses are built from 2005 to 2014, but Amazon also received subsidies during this period, and the authors of the report said that these subsidies should be cut off It suggests.