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With Amazon's increasing omnipresence in users' lives, that means customers lost access to services such as Kindle ebooks, Prime Video, Amazon Echos, and Fire TVs, as well as previously purchased ebooks and streaming videos, pre-loaded gift cards, and orders in the mail.
Sort off my topic, but it does illustrate a problem of having a single entity with so much power.
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and that is what is ticking him off. He really needs to grow up but I don't see that ever happening.
I truly believe that Trump, who despite superficially appearing to have everything, more often than not appears unhappy because deep-down he's still trying to please the father he never could, an exercise in futility.
Way more people work/used to work in retail jobs that Amazon is putting out of business.
And eventually, Amazon will replace many the thousands who work for them with automation and drones etc.
And?
Way more people used to work shoeing horses than do now.
Where is the outrage?
I have all sorts of issues with Amazon but blaming them for capitalizing on capitalism isn't one of them.
And for Trump's supporters to defend his attacking Bezos while purportedly having voted for him due to his so-called business acumen, is well, we know what it is.
It would be nice if we could believe that Trump actually cared about the "little" people but after the tax cuts that primarily rewarded those in his income range coupled with the following, well, we know he doesn't see farther than his own nose.
"The president’s net worth plummeted by more than $600 million in the past year, according to the Forbes 400 List of the wealthiest people in America.
And the magazine reported Wednesday that a big reason Trump’s real estate holdings had slumped was because retail values were struggling in response to Amazon’s gains."
Yes, but the damage was done long ago. I drove across the country a few years ago and in virtually every small town where there was a Walmart their main street was dead, just one boarded up small store after another.
But this is the capitalistic system that the right is constantly lauding. How can they continue to say they believe in free market capitalism on the one hand, while also applauding the president for attempting to take down a business that became successful using the free market model?
Either you like capitalism or you don't. Make up your mind.
Exactly.
When it was noted, when Romney ran for president, that Bain Capital was responsible for putting many, many thousands of people out of work, his supporters collectively shrugged and said that was the price of doing business.
As I have noted before, their foundation is built on quicksand.
Sort off my topic, but it does illustrate a problem of having a single entity with so much power.
It’s a private company. No one is forced to buy anything from Amazon. It is not a public utility without competition. It had about 315 million active users in 2016.
That a few hundred report experiencing sign on problems at any point in time is not statistically significant.
Maybe it’s a glitch. Maybe they are not paying their bills. Who knows?
The internet is full of Amazon wannabes. Don’t like Amazon? Shop elsewhere.
Amazon could realistically form their own armada of courier vehicles to handle all of Amazons shipping and potentially put the US Postal Service back on ice.
They could. They actually do have some of their own vehicles, I saw quite a few around my neighborhood at Christmastime.
But they're smart. They know how to work within the existing structure.
They don't have to pay benefits or maintenance for the postal workers/vehicles, so win-win.
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