Quote from: K-Dog on Jun 16, 2023, 07:30 AMThe article makes the claim that Amazon was once 'good'. I don't agree that was ever true. Amazon leads humanity into a new dark age of exploitation. The computer rules now, and humans are irrelevant. Amazon was shitty when they put the first bookstore out of business. Amazon did not become shitty, they always were.
Oh, I don't know. The concept in the article was macro of course, other bookstores knock off bookstores no different than Amazon did, Amazon just brought scale to the table. And the Amazon effect, which could also be called "economies of scale" when it comes to a particular part of the economy (bookstores, clothing stores, mom and pop owned convenience stores and local diners being knocked off by the likes of Dennys and Walmart, etc etc) was just the way America went for whatever reason we decided to become a hegemony, run by oligarchs, where health care for citizens is a profit center and milking consumers for every spare penny they have for useless crap is just normal business.
So I like the macro concept just as part of how American history unfolded, just one of those pieces along the way to the now.