Amazon's influence in America - a podcast by RNZ

Headquartered in Seattle, Amazon is the second-biggest private workplace in the United States behind Walmart, employing more than 800 thousand people. It's CEO, Jeff Bezos, is the richest person alive, and the company has just had its most profitable year in history as more people than ever shopped online due to the coronavirus pandemic. Alec MacGillis is an award winning journalist for ProPublica, whose work has previously appeared in The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun and the New Republic. His new book Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America, looks at Amazon's far reaching impacts across the United States, what's behind that easy one click, especially the growing inequality from a regional stand point: the "winning" cities and those that have been left behind.

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