Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Amazon is just as Venal as a Gas Station Next to the Highway

Both will raise prices as far as they can before people go elsewhere. Only Amazon used an algorithm to do it.

Because the Richest Man in America didn't get there by giving people breaks. He did it the classic way: Prices as high as possible, working conditions as brutal and as low-paying as possible.

3 comments:

  1. Hey I thought jeff was a philanthropist, after all he has a golly shucks smile that's pretty endearing to me.

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  2. “What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.”

    Molly Ivins


    And where does that money come from?

    "Dark money groups have spent roughly $1 billion — mainly on television and online ads and mailers — to influence elections in the decade since the 2010 Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court ruling that gave rise to politically active nonprofits."

    https://www.opensecrets.org/dark-money/basics

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  3. You keep making the Rollerball argument.

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