Inside Amazon's Spheres, the Biodome Office in Seattle | WSJ Open Office 

wow u sure showed Jeff Bezos

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@@stun3282 what you mean to say is that they are using the tax code as it is written by all parties

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watch out we got an armchair accountant here

It's always be

in other words kiss assing big time

Correction: Inside the Biodome: interns fight to the death on the rumor of a promise that one day they may have the opportunity to compete for the opportunity to earn a job that may or may not pay a living wage. Conditions and limitations may apply.

Two men enter one man leave

It's also a blight on the planet ecologically speaking....nothing about it is environmentally sound. The sir Inside is full of chemicals.

r/wooosh

Anime Tops r/woooosh

Anime Tops also you’re a weab.

1.Destroy real nature 2.Create private artificial nature to yourself

except nothing around you is natural, and you're working for the devil

I bet your hoping to be rained on by men

I doubt one would notice most of the time. It doesn't rain here much. It sprinkles for months at a time. We don't carry umbrellas. Most days, looking out the window, its hard to tell if its raining or not. The drops aren't big enough so you have to look at the tops of parked cars or see if any drops are hitting the puddles. But its not like back east where you get thunder and lightening, heavy downpours with hail and the like. Its more like a never ending opening to Bambi - din din din little April showers....but even that would be a heavy rain:)

jurassic park/museum feel it would give💜

imagine not paying taxes.. Heavenly 😍

It is Seattle so I would say i rains a lot lol

When the company cut your salary to build the building, ah.

dude... your name...

@@ConstantinosJkay It's unique. ;)

The problem is that these were tax write offs for the trillion dollar company that made billions last year and didn't pay any taxes in the US

@@MM-hq2bd I don't think that's related to the office though. I think Amazon is a scummy company too, but regardless of who built the office, it's still a good office.

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And twice the dispensaries.

@@osvaldoreyes34 Lol, good point. Giant hotbox.

It's not a Starbucks but there is actually a coffee shop in the mid level of it.

Yeah I bet

'Waah I hate company's that drastically change things and need ultra efficency to create a superior product that actually has a chance of doing good in the future'

@@TheFreshSpam you do know they pay next to nothing in tax and actively exploiting its workers right. Amazon bring new innovation to the world sure, but hey we can criticize its flaws too right.

They were losing money for almost 20 years, so tax credit. Similarly to you, if you losing money for small business, you can get tax credit for future years. Also here in Canada, the minimum wage for Amazon employees is 19/hour, that's good(if people's feels exploited they would quit like a normal person) and I know, driving throughout the city and walking to a front door must be life threatening. The reason why Amazons prices is so cheap is because they spend so much more money making it cheap(to remove competition) to a point that sometimes they wont even reach their profitable point.

@@AnimeTopsEntertainment fair point. Apparently you are smarter than the two people above us. Basically we can't over demonize someone and at the same time can't over glorify someone. In the case of Amazon's I think it is prudent to keep both eyes open. John D Rocker feller man had a monopoly of oil industry, he set a strong foundation for oil refining standards. Which benefitted mankind immensly At the same time, he was causing plenty of busniess and workers to go out of work to stamp out competition. How many careers and livilhood have he stamped out? Are we not going to keep a eye out on Amazon just because it provide a great service for us? Remember even Apple exploit their workers in China. But we love IPhone ya?

@@AnimeTopsEntertainment besides.. If Amazon don't make money for so many year why is Jeff Bezos still the richest man in the world? Jeff and Amazon benefitted greatly from America infrastructure. And they pay nothing? Not even a bit? Even when it is profitable?

Amanda Spheres aren't really space efficient

Ebbe B As a former Seattlite, you hit the nail on the head

Implying most people want to interact with homeless people

Perfect. Who wants to interact with lazy druggies?

Most of those plants would never grow in Seattle. It’s a very complex ecosystem they’ve created. I mean you’re right about it being a space only for amazons employees and the elite, but it’s more complex than not wanting to see homeless people.

Poor guy. So sad.

Buy your own chair cheap-o

Break ur back and sue them *works every time*

Rodrigo set it on fire, I’m serious.

You must be working for the government

Let me just think of the most german answer possible and say that spheres are highly space inefficient

@@jonnynik7626l

I wonder if that's made in China, too.

So you want them packaging boxes in a sphere

Probably doesn't make financial sense, which is probably why they won't do it. It's not a charity.

That’s their own fault, you have total control of where you want to work, nobody’s forcing you to work there. If you hate your job, cut out your liabilities and save up $$$ and change jobs.

Cherry Stone warehouse workers actually account for 100,000 of Amazons total 647,500 employees.

They were losing money for almost 20 years, so tax credit. Similarly to you, if you losing money for small business, you can get tax credit for future years

The largest company in the world, hehhe... No taxes!

Study basic taxes economics it’ll help you.

@@newton2013 It's really not the biggest but ok lol

Investing back into the company is a tax write off.

or better working conditions

@Brutal Wingman no one said it was bro. still doesn't mean they shouldn't treat their workers better.

@Brutal Wingman If you are dependent on the income, quitting would prove to be a bit of a problem would it not?

@Brutal Wingman I thought you were trying not to sound callous? Kinda failed honestly.

@@darklight8675 heh, ok buddy.

"Each leaf represents a family that saved money and could afford better things due to the economies of scale achieved by amazon"

@@chetanaik "Each leaf represents the amount of times you licked the boots of greedy capitalists, while they are exploiting you and your family"

@@dialecticalveganegoist1721 "each stem represents screw you commie, I like 2 day shipping" lol

@@darklight8675 oof nice one

Oh well

they're hardly comparable

They aren't making decisions that steer the direction of the entire company.

@@orangebottle9657 what if they decide to walk out

@@theeldergil They will lose their jobs, amazon will have even more reason to accelerate automation rollout, and in the meantime will hire more people to replace them. There is little incentive for people to do that, and that's that whether we like it or not.

Who you think is making the money for them or for the office peeps

Surprisingly, Amazon doesn’t order any of its products from itself. I’m an Amazon employee and when we get things like new chairs etc they specifically state we can NOT get them from Amazon.com. It has something to do with the taxes etc. So yea Amazon surprisingly buys a LOT of stuff they could be saving money on, from outside businesses.

@@Mattorrr i guess you can't deduct something you purchased from yourself?

Joseph Richardson yea and Amazon does taxes differently because they have that special “we make a lot of money” tax rate haha. But in general yea they’d be like buying from themselves but the taxes would be off because buying from yourself at one rate and paying taxes on the same item at a different rate would be way too confusing

One is paid by the government, the other is a private company.

Yeah amazon made it for the Chinese they will flood our west coast with

It really isn't. You cant just hand pick some nice looking plants and call that nature. If this is what replaces the natural world then food chains die and ecosystems collapse.

If futuristic nature means wasting tons of energy and resources in keeping foreign flora alive because it looks cool instead of seeking to not waste resources and keeping endemic flora where it belongs then we're doing something wrong

@James Franko "inspiration"

@James Franko To cloud forest, gardens by the bay, forest valley Singapore, not very different

Matt V $15/hr is not underpaid for sorting merchandise

Matt V why should replaceable parts be treated as well as irreplaceable or annoying to replace parts.

@@Eric-Truong If you treat the world like the cogs of a moving machine then there's no humanity

@@neilt1352 again, theyre paid 15/hr. i worked in a fulfillment center for 5 months in multiple positions and i assure u 15/hr isnt bad for the work

@@ntactime_w3488 The question here then is, when you worked at those fulfillment centers what sort of improvements or elements in your work environment was Amazon actively taking steps to make your working environment better? did they put some kind of trail around the fulfillment center? Was there a spa on site, how about a relaxation room? What about some of those sleeping pods that all them coders are always talking about? oh I know... they at least put in a hot tub out back, that way people could at least relax after their long day of work.... Right? there was something at the fulfillment center that helped make the monotony and stress of that job better? I mean did you have an indoor rainforest? The least they could do would be to put some kind of trail around the property of the fulfillment center, that seems to be at least the minimum that they could do to provide some kind of relaxing element for the work environment. Did they at least do that?

Lol

Exactly, the drones get nothing but grief.

Noboil Frog because they’re replaceable. In terms of business, people likely to use this would be of more worth to the company.

sorry but sorting packages doesn't take a lot of intelligence. as cruel as it is there will always be people without the fortune of smarts. it's a necessary cost so that we can get minds like Nikola Tesla or Carl Sagan, etc.

How do you know your memory of a different biodomewasn't over written when you saw this one?

Has it ever crossed your mind that your school isn't worth 1 trillion dollars...?

@@Tullymastully That 1 trillion is achieved and maintained by dodging all the taxes that Amazon would have to pay to governments if they didn't have a ton of legal strategies to get around them. A public school not being able to run it's AC when it needs to is, in some way, a result of the greed of Amazon.

@@cole1714 Amazon doesnt even make that much money, go blame Apple

Vysair amazon is waaay worse than apple in many regards

@@jsebastianmunch In term of their work ethic and condition, yeah Amazon is probably worse than Apple.

You cant go inside

plus taking endemic flora from its environment and transporting it all the way to Seattle where it doesn't belong instead of... you know... using local flora

Probably more than the ball sac building... They got to make those warehouses compliant for their future fleet of robots to replace the defiant employees

Good one

That's exactly what crossed my mind.

Exactly! They really like to have as wide as possible gap in working conditions. "We care about our employees, unless you do manually labor, can you please pee in a bottle instead of taking a bathroom break that'd be great thaaanks"

them order picking people know what the work conditions are like before they start working so they can decide wether or not they want to work there

Schrodinger's Cat, I don’t practice architecture now

Well birth rates continue to fall, so the population is expected to never break 12 billion. Also, it truly seems like vertical farming / factory farming of plants has the potential to provide organic foods for a fraction of the resources, and land usage. It won't come soon, it will probably take 50 - 100 years, but it is believed that we will be able to provide all of the world's food with somewhere between 5-10% of the land we use today. If that is coupled with only the 50% estimated increase in total population, there should be a lot of land that opens up for more parks and forests in the future. Humanity right now is just at an incredibly tough transitory period...think of it as the awkward and painful puberty of humanity.

it's perfect for us Indonesians

A: "why sphere"? Q: because we need to keep thinking of good ideas! cut to next scene.

RancidMarshmallow I have been in a few times also, it’s a great place but it’s only made for employees. If everyone could come in it would be chaos and would have no point for the employees to have a nice place to relax.

1) You don't need to be ultra-rich to work at Amazon HQ... 2) This is a workplace. Honestly, if you can make where you work feel good, why wouldn't you?

@@drumma_satch You obviously didn't watch the video... They said yes, people are able to visit it... Smh... Don't post things you obviously don't know what you're talking about......

Yes but u need tickets, and it fills up fast

go educate yourself and get a better job this is just entry-level job, don't expect to earn millions when ur job is to put labels on cartons. I had to work hard 40-50h a week while I was studying, now I can relax and have a better life, work hard and smart than u will earn more.

They do.

artmasterpl in general that’s a good answer but it’s important to point out and be compassionate towards people that can’t work 40 hours a week and go to school and do internships for varying reasons like having to take care of a loved one, mental health, or physical health reasons, etc. And even then, at the end of the day, a lot of people work so much harder than others and still aren’t able to live even comfortably.

@Ben Daniel Because you didn't read it or see it on your favorite news channel? Or perhaps you have a vested intrest?

@Ben You must be a supervisor! Almost every news agency in the country has done a story on Amazon and restroom breaks. People even peeing in bottles to avoid getting a strike for going to the restroom!

built on the poor? LOL They pay more in taxes than any of you and they don't talk anything from tax payers. Get over yourself old low iq ball sack.

@@logic7374 You are either ignorant or evil but I'm not the judge!

@Andreas Leo Faulstich well, because otherwise I would just work in worse environment. I mean, I feel like your answer isn't even supposed to make any sense

TheQuestionChannel wow you can’t wait to live to work for the elites, the bourgeoisie. To trade your freedom and potentiality for a “nice work environment lul”. You’re a disgrace to humanity.

@@cristianmartinez9091 ahahhahah, i refuse to believe you actually thought this, you can't be like that ahahhaha