[NEWS] Five links about Amazon: HQ2 in Canada, US cities, Amazon Prime, monopolies, CamperForce

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• Canadian cities could host Amazon's HQ2, but at considerable cost. Affordable housing, say, would be an issue.


• Conor Sen argues that Amazon's HQ2 augurs an age of corporate diffusion beyond the largest centres.
• Amazon Prime, Kaleigh Rogers notes, is hugely important for remote communities like those in the North. If it goes ...


• Stacy Mitchell notes how, after Whole Foods, Amazon seems set to monopolize the whole infrastructure of commerce.


• Is Jessica Bruder's story of CamperForce, Amazon's RV-living army of elderly workers, a cheering story of triumph over adversity or a scary take on the future of work? I'm not sure.