Boing BoingJan 5, 2018
Camperforce: Laura Poitras documentary on the elderly precariat nomads who keep Amazon's warehouses working https://boingboing.net/2018/01/05/end-of-retirement.html #intergenerationalwarfare #demographicsaredestiny #therent'stoodamnhigh #wagestagnation #AmericanDream #jessicabruder #laurapoitras #camperforce #gigeconomy #nomadland #classwar #youtube #amazon #nomads #videos #Video #labor
Camperforce: Laura Poitras documentary on the elderly precariat nomads who keep Amazon's warehouses working

Camperforce: Laura Poitras documentary on the elderly precariat nomads who keep Amazon's warehouses working

Boing Boing
Ecologia DigitalJan 1, 2018

Watch the #Future: On how #Amazon integrates the human element to the #algorithm. The case of US 'senior citizen nomads' #CamperForce.

~The walls featured murals of #Amazon’s warehouse mascot, a bloblike orange character called Peccy, along with #Orwellian slogans like “Problems Are Treasures” and “Variation Is the Enemy.”
#futureofwork ?

https://www.wired.com/story/meet-camperforce-amazons-nomadic-retiree-army/

Meet the CamperForce, Amazon's Nomadic Retiree Army

Inside the grueling, rootless lives of the RV dwellers who are spending their golden years working in the e-tail behemoth's warehouses.