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The World after Amazon

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The World After Amazon is a speculative fiction project developed by the Worker as Futurist Project in 2023. It brought together 13 rank-and-file Amazon workers to imagine and write short stories envisioning a future beyond the reach of the corporation. The result is featured on the website afteramazon.world.

Since it was founded in 1994, Amazon has presented itself as a benevolent force in our world, ‘revolutionizing’ many areas of life and the economy, from books and media to robotics and logistics, from groceries and electronics to internet services and much, much more. The corporation promises to bring a utopian future of consumer convenience. But its workers pay the price, often toiling in dystopian conditions to generate profit so great their boss was able to finance his own private space program. Companies like Amazon are indeed shaping the future of humanity, but the workers who generate its wealth have no say in that future.

The Worker as Futurist Project supports workers in reclaiming the tools of imagination and narrative. It provides a platform for them to tell their own stories, articulate their own visions, and assert their collective power to shape the future. This project stands in solidarity with workers and communities across the globe who are organizing to confront the power of Amazon and build more just, equitable futures.