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Amazon Pays you to Quit Your Job to Drive for Them! #1367


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Amazon wants its employees to quit, give them a three months severance package and $10k in cash to start a business that would have the prior employee drive for them. Quite incredible if you think about it. But I look at the math on it and wonder if someone can actually make a full-time living working for Amazon as an independent delivery person. Considering the cost of benefits for a sole business owner I really doubt it.
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Show Notes:

* –SpaceX to launch 60 satellites 
* –Mobile apps give the blind and visually impaired freedom
* –NASA commemorates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing
* –Loyalty programs are “a honey pot for hackers”
* –Proxy Vs, VPN
* –All 4 wireless carriers hit with lawsuits
* Hermeus announces a plan to build the fastest aircraft 
* –Facebook sues app maker
* –1.28 million US residents cut the TV cord
* –Sprint is practically begging regulators to approve the merger
* –Amazon might start using robots
* –Japan begins testing the worlds fastest bullet train
* –Amazon offers $10,000 and 3 months pay to employees
* –A...
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