Prime Video is Amazon’s streaming arm, built to keep users tied to Prime memberships and spending across the company’s empire. It pushes an endless flow of shows and films, including exclusive titles from Amazon Studios and MGM. Every view, rental, or subscription funds a corporation that thrives on worker exploitation, union busting, surveillance technology, and contracts that support state violence.
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.