In a blog post, Bray wrote: "At the end of the day the big problem is ... that Amazon treats the humans in the warehouses as fungible units of pick-and-pack potential. Only that's not just Amazon, it's how 21st-century capitalism is done."
Amazon has a "lack of vision about the human costs of the relentless growth and accumulation of wealth and power," according to Bray.
Staying in the job, he contended, "would have meant, in effect, signing off on actions [he] despised." He then offered thoughts on necessary changes.
"If we don't like certain things Amazon is doing, we need to put legal guardrails in place to stop those things," he said. "We don't need to invent anything new; a combination of antitrust and living wage and worker-empowerment legislation, rigorously enforced, offers a clear path forward."