Amazon Flex

This is pretty incredible. Want a part time job, want to earn 18-25 Dollars an hour? Or until the drones replace you, someone quipped on Twitter, then become a delivery person for Amazon -> Amazon Flex. What are you going to deliver via your own transport? Yes, your own transport. It turns out Amazon Prime Now packages, for those who really can't wait. You can work 12 hours a day, 7 day a week, earnings 2100 Dollars a week, or 109,200 Dollars a year, provided you work each and every day for 12 hours a day, presuming you changed that to 5 days a week, the annual salary would still be an acceptable 78,000 Dollars a year.

So Amazon is basically applying the collective need and desire, as well as cutting out traditional companies (UPS, DHL and the like) to provide services for their customers. I mean, do you care how your package gets to you? Does it matter that a sweaty unshaven teenager delivers your package or a middle aged delivery person dressed in company regalia? I am pretty sure that there will be scoring (the Uber/Tripadvisor/Booking.com stars) for the delivery people, and Amazon will likely use higher rated people first. The same age old strategy of, the better you are and the harder you work at your job, strangely the more you seem to get paid. Amazon continues to shake things up a little, each day at a time for people to enjoy the benefits of lower prices and convenience at the same time.

Companies create value by allowing humans to use resources more efficiently. The concept of Uber and the likes of AirBnB allows us to "share" or cars or houses with other people while we are not using them, the result is that we have less idle capital and resources. Amazon is doing exactly this, with this new service. Quick deliveries will mean less of a need for brick and mortar stores and the ability to build warehouses out of the way and on less valuable land, with the result being cheaper goods and more money for the consumer to spend on other things, the BusinessInsider has this take - Amazon goes after Uber and a slew of other on-demand startups with its own delivery service.