#corporatization

The job listings were for positions within Amazon’s global security operations department, specifically within the Global Intelligence Program. One was for an intelligence analyst and the other for a senior intelligence analyst, both out of an Amazon office in Phoenix, Arizona. The role was described in one now-deleted listing as “vital to ensuring that Amazon operations leadership have access to actionable intelligence that informs decision making on a global scale.” Part of that effort, as the listing explained, involves “engaging and informing [executive leadership] on sensitive topics ... including labor organizing threats against the company.”

None of Amazon’s contract, warehouse, or corporate workforces are unionized, and the company has long exhibited anti-union sentiments through policies and actions taken against former employees. Amazon has been known to distribute anti-union videos to Whole Foods locations, and earlier this year, it was reported to be using a heat map to monitor Whole Foods stores throughout the country to track a potential unionization campaign.

This video is So. Interesting.

Although it’s about Super Smash Bros, and I haven’t played one of those games since the second one game out, it speaks to so much more than video games. 

It’s about the “struggle between corporation and consumer” and how creatives/creators are stuck in this struggle. It’s about “fan toxicity” and “greedy corporate demands”. It’s about the symbolism of that struggle being embedded into the media itself.

It’s about how these take away from the media, the characters, and the creators. The joy and imagination inherent in the world or art that one builds and creates.

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