Amazon Studios is the entertainment division behind Prime Video, using massive budgets to pull in big-name talent and dominate streaming. It’s not just about producing shows and movies—it’s about locking viewers deeper into Amazon’s ecosystem, where every subscription feeds a company notorious for brutal labor practices, monopoly power, and contracts that support surveillance 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.