I’m not sure about the rest of the world, but here in Seattle, it’s no secret that Jeff Bezos is completely, thoroughly despised. What Amazon has done to this city is so astronomical, from changing (read: massacring) our culture, landscape, and housing costs, it’s hard to imagine it ever being undone. And now that our resident Mr. Burns is more interested in traveling to space than selling books, it only makes him look like more of a complete dick while the people who actually work for him are peeing in bottles in order to fulfill the orders of his monolithic company.
The plight of these underpaid and overworked laborers is exemplified in the video for chamber pop duo Takénobu’s new single “Traveling Light.” In it, Nick Ogawa plays a rodent trapped in the literal rat race of working day-in-day-out in a warehouse at a company called Amazing. With the same logo and colors as the Bezos-owned company, it’s less a wink and more a shove at who Ogawa’s referencing.
