Fulfillment

“He wrote this book called fulfillment about life, uh, for basically not even life for workers in the Amazon fulfillment centers, but more just about the inequality that we have in the country and how it's, um, a system that's, uh, that's essentially like you can fight against, but you can't beat in some ways.”

“alec mcgillis is the author of fulfillment winning and losing in one click america a terrific terrific new book about amazon's impact on our economy and society”

“but i'd love to hear from your perspective you know your book is about fulfillment you know no no uh no coincidence amazon calls their uh warehouses fulfillment centers”

“so what about your your personal experience made you interested in writing a book like this really taking a look at and we're going to get into a little bit more in terms of like what these jobs are like”

“there was an interesting thing that just reading through your book talking about how amazon fulfillment centers are now on the land that bethlehem steel was and it struck me that we're talking about fulfillment versus production”

“the book is fulfillment winning and losing in one click america it's a great book uh you should pick it up i saw that you guys were advertising on amazon by the way”

“of course there's many many others have told the story of of of of how we lost that manufacturing base and lost those those kind of jobs i i tell that part of the story in the book both through both through what happened at best steel”

“the i'm you know i take pains in the book not to glorify that industrial work but get go into great detail about just how treacherous the work was um describe a lot of these different injuries”

“i mean this is the you know this is a question that goes beyond my book to be honest this is a question that's you know this is this is a question for our novelists too”

“and this book is partly and an appeal to to that person to to just to think a little harder more broadly and and commit and connect make connections it's all about making connections”

“exactly i know i see those i absolutely see the books those books all tied together right i actually participated in a i was in a um kind of a workshop session for the meritocracy trap”

“and and um you know i talk about this in in fulfillment that there's that that there's now much more sorting of the middle class people are now much more likely to live amongst other middle class people”