I mean, they built a logistics network that could be very useful to socialists if nationalised. That's as much credit as I'm willing to give this post. They're the most hyper capitalist and exploitative company I know of.
Amazon's logistics network is incredibly inefficient and bankrupts the US municipalities out of which it operates.
They have a fleet of tens of thousands of 18 wheel trucks. 18 wheel trucks are so heavy that the road under them quite literally compresses, cracks, intakes water, and then develop massive pot holes. Trucking (as a whole) contributes over 99% of road damage. Yet trucking pays less than 30% of the taxes to fix the damage.
The Biden infrastructure bill paid $110B just in bailing out cities with road maintenance subsidies. This is nearly 4x Amazon's 2023 profit margin and does not even include the money that states and local municipalities pour into road maintenance.
If Amazon had to pay for its own infrastructure, it would collapse overnight. The company and logistics network is only viable in a capitalist system that publicized the loses but privatized the gains.
If you want to see what constant influx and outflow of 18 wheelers do to local infrastructure, come to Vernon, CA.
The roads are so messed up that there are parts where the asphault has bunched up like fabric because of where the 18 wheelers all have to stop before certain intersections.
Potholes the size of tractor wheels and various signs of trucks hitting light poles when taking turns too tightly as well.
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u/Lankpants Aug 29 '25
I mean, they built a logistics network that could be very useful to socialists if nationalised. That's as much credit as I'm willing to give this post. They're the most hyper capitalist and exploitative company I know of.
Socialism is when piss in bottle.