Amazon Home Services sells itself as a convenient way to book plumbers, cleaners, and other local pros, but it’s really about Amazon inserting itself into yet another market and taking a cut. It pressures small businesses to play by its rules, controls customer access through its platform, and uses the data to decide where it can undercut or replace them entirely. Every booking still feeds the same corporate machine—one built on exploitation, union-busting, and cloud contracts that help power Israeli occupation and apartheid.
Amazon is rated High Impact because its harms are systemic and interlocking.
Environmental Harm: Delivery fleets, aviation cargo, and data centers generate massive emissions and plastic waste, while public pledges mask lobbying against climate regulation.
Human Rights Violations: Workers face surveillance, injury-level quotas, and unsafe delivery speeds. Migrant workers in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere face wage theft and coercion.
Military & Conflict Complicity: AWS is central to surveillance states. Project Nimbus embeds Amazon in Israel’s occupation and war crimes, supplying AI and data services to its military and government.
The result: consumer spending that powers a machine which entrenches inequality, accelerates climate collapse, and sustains state violence worldwide.