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Podcast: AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast
Episode: What the biblical prophets might think of Amazon with Br. Joe Hoover, SJ
Description: As my wife would tell you, I am a compulsive Amazon shopper. A few taps of my thumb and voila – diapers or granola bars or a massaging seat cover for the car show up at our house two days later.
I wish I wasn’t so bad at this, because I know Amazon is not a great company, to put it mildly. Their CEO Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world and his lowest-paid employees barely make $30,000 a year while facing some pretty tough working conditions in Amazon warehouses.
What I am supposed to do with this cognitive diss...