ideas.txt

This file contains ideas for warnings and companies that are being researched and their sources.
Due to the project being dropped, this will be used as a launching point if ever picked up again.

Shady things
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Deforestation
Plastic pollution
  - Split things like carbon pollution from plastic pollution?
Cihld labor
Prison labor
Low wages 

Companies
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Amazon
    - Places for more info
        https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/company-profile/amazoncom-inc
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Amazon

    - Tax avoidance - paying little to no taxes while pitting US states against each other
        https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/how-amazon-helped-kill-a-seattle-tax-on-business/562736/
    - Poor wages
        https://thecounter.org/amazon-snap-employees-five-states/
        https://money.cnn.com/2013/07/30/news/companies/amazon-warehouse-workers/index.html
        https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/01/20/what-amazon-does-to-wages
        https://ilsr.org/amazon-stranglehold/
        https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/high-court-amazon-doesnt-pay-workers-going-security-lines
        https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/11/amazon-accused-of-intolerable-conditions-at-scottish-warehouse
    - Working conditions
        https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/7xm4dy/ambulances-were-called-to-amazon-warehouses-600-times-in-three-years
        https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
            - rebuttal: https://medium.com/@jaycarney/what-the-new-york-times-didn-t-tell-you-a1128aa78931
        https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-workers-have-to-pee-into-bottles-2018-4?r=US&IR=T
        https://www.organise.org.uk/blog/2018/4/13/amazon-the-report
        https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-07/amazon-s-story-time-is-kind-of-a-bummer
        https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-09/workers-at-amazon-warehouses-wont-be-paid-to-wait-in-security-lines
        https://gawker.com/inside-an-amazon-warehouse-the-relentless-need-to-mak-1780800336
        https://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/worse_than_wal_mart_amazons_sick_brutality_and_secret_history_of_ruthlessly_intimidating_workers/
    - Exploiting temporary workers
        https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/life-and-death-amazon-temp/
        https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/07/ohio-warehouse-temps-unemployment/
    - Explotion of Chinese workers
        https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/09/amazon-contractor-foxconn-pay-workers-illegally
    - Terrible Work Culture
        https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
    - Delivery drivers & the gig economy
        https://gizmodo.com/amazons-last-mile-1820451224
    - Exploiting buyers and sellers
        https://www.propublica.org/article/amazon-says-it-puts-customers-first-but-its-pricing-algorithm-doesnt
        https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/04/jeff-bezos-amazon-workers-raise-monopoly
        https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54598
    - Political lobbying
        https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-amazon-lobbying/
    - Crushing unions
        https://time.com/956/how-amazon-crushed-the-union-movement/
        https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/technology/amazon-proves-infertile-soil-for-unions-so-far.html


    - Other options
        https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethical-campaigns/boycott-amazon/shopping-without-amazon
        https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethicalcampaigns/boycott-amazon

Nike
Forever 21
Kylie Cosmetics