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This is a misplaced sentiment. If Amazon were trying to trap people into spending money at their store and forcing people to pay exorbitant Amazon prices, then
by InclinedPlane 10y ago
This is a misplaced sentiment. If Amazon were trying to trap people into spending money at their store and forcing people to pay exorbitant Amazon prices, then maybe this argument would make sense. But Amazon has a wide selection of products at low prices. And they'd be willing to let people extract their money and go use it elsewhere if it weren't for the pesky problems related to money laundering. There's really no reason to assume amazon is acting in bad faith or against the interests of people using this service.
- samstave 10y agoI agree with you completely, and I am going to put forth a totally unfounded conspiracy theory that popped in my mind, consider it just an exercise in fiction: What if Amazon, with the fact that they built that huge CIA data center (think AWS for the CIA, plus the other contracts, plus the WAPO purchas...) is now doing an op to determine where grey money may be going and on what... Think of it as a data op... the infra to determine where monied intentions are going - it has nothing to to with terrorism, but everything to do with totalitarianism.