Amazon is ruthless. A behemoth that ate Sears and Kmart for snacks. A publicly traded Frankenstein creature, shocked into life by vast flows of data, animated by its robot-staffed misery factories, where the humans trapped inside are stuck in a John Henry race they are never going to win, their every movement tracked to the second in an eternal time-motion study, the workplace as Frederick Winslow Taylor’s mutant brainchild.

