Where We're Shopping, We Won't Need Eyes To See feat. This Machine Kills
(This is 'The Free One', posted early for our beloved patrons)
Ed and Jathan from This Machine Kills (@machinekillspod) are back to discuss another titan of the tech industry. Amazon's annual leader to shareholders has been released, and in it they advance a sort of inverse labour theory of value (who can be surprised!), with hilarious results. It's scale is now approaching a level that is hard to comprehend, so come with us across the event horizon. But first, we discuss Labour's performance in the elections and the leadership's steadfast ability to not learn anything.
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Comments (21)
I have often said for years now, Amazon is basically becoming Shinra from FF7. And with the added bonus of shape-shifting like an Eldrich horror.
Great episode! Regarding Alice's callout on Ayn Rand and trains, sn episode on the wierdness of Randian thought would be great! Just think: a novel that ends with a three hour monologue that everyone stops to listen to over a hacked radio frequency that explains (but doesn't) everything that is sociopolitical followed by a rescue mission that succeeds because socialism turns everyone into Boridan's Ass; a novel that is about how awesome capitalists are, but whose heroes all have job roles that are wierdly connected to how the things (are idealised as being) on the factory floor, which are nevertheless identified with by the kind of financial hucksters talked about on the show; an ethos that is entirely based on reason in which smoking cigarettes is a positive virtue, but homosexuality and Monet paintings are bad just because (but rational, trust me on this); a film series dedicated to Rand's magnum opus about the ubermenschen that uses three different casts and in which the quality overall diminishes sharply from a very low base to create an even less coherent representation of an incoherent story; the Greenspan connection; 'The Collective'; the fact that Atlas Shrugged is promoted by several US school districts nowadays despite the hostility of Rand to goverment money (in AS a Randian hero (tm) throws someone down some stairs for offering them a state sponsored loan).
I'm so confused since Real Ale is a brewery in Texas. Why are there so many supporters of a niche Texas brewery in the UK?
I hate to say this but South Park was right... Jeff Bezos is one of those big headed aliens from the original Star Trek pilot "The Cage"
This guy talks about workers the way my brother talks about the dogs he trains for a living
#MakeMiloUseABike2021
My prediction is that Labour under Starmer and Mandelson are going to give up on the 'red wall', get rid of the left and the unions and turn into the Democratic Party to try to win middle class Remain voters in the South East. Maybe they'll end up merging with the Lib Dems.
And then the work of the SDP/ChUK will be complete and Chuka Ummuna will finally be the Labour leader like he always dreamed
Great ep, thanks! Y’all should check out Jesse LeCavalier’s work on Walmart, which explains a lot of the “mind-boggling scale and complexity” of what Amazon does now in very plain terms (with lots of cool pictures!). Shameless plug for my friend, but I know a lot of listeners would get stuck in to it.
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-rule-of-logistics
Fantastic Episode though the details of the failed purge are hilarious. It’s undecided whether Angela Rayner deciding not to pull the trigger on Starmer’s career was smart.
Okay. I wasn't being judgemental or anything, I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't going crazy lol
I was gonna say Riley laughing during the second snort seemed like a dead giveaway
Did someone snort cocaine on the podcast?
I mean we were on video the whole time while recording it and I definitely don’t recall that happening lol, but let me know the time stamp and I can probably cut out the sniffing sound
IT'S THE FREE ONE, WITH THIS MACHINE KILLS AND RILEY AND THE GUNCH. (@milo don't let riley neg you the Free One voice is a quality bit)
Christ I used The Free One voice in real life yesterday.
Nice event horizon reference
As a real ale guy I am sorry but you are wildly misunderstood about real ale guys. They're all just very mediocre dads that like cricket and find lager drinkers a bit loud. Very harmless. Camra is very silly though, real father's 4 justice vibes
If it wasn't for CAMRA we'd still be on the Watney's Pale and Marston's Party Sevens. Granted you're not going to find good ale in a chain pub and it can be utterly mediocre but good pales, darks and bitters are widespread if you know where to look.
love u guys together!💕