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Mar 2021
57m 29s

One-Click America with Alec MacGillis

Chris Hayes, MSNBC & NBCNews THINK
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Amazon puts just about everything you might need one click away and over the last year, people have been turning to the tech giant more than ever. But all that frictionless efficiency comes at huge social costs. In his new book “Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America”, ProPublica Reporter Alec MacGillis investigates Amazon’s impact on the deepening economic divide in towns and cities across the country. 

Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America by Alec MacGillis

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