Amazon’s end goal is that any consumer purchase you make happens as follows: you say (think?) “hey Alexa I want $ITEM” - anywhere you are - and a few hours late

Amazon’s end goal is that any consumer purchase you make happens as follows: you say (think?) “hey Alexa I want $ITEM” - anywhere you are - and a few hours later at most, $ITEM is in your house, perhaps even in your fridge if applicable. Maybe Amazon didn’t make $ITEM, maybe they don’t employ the truck driver/make the drone who drops it off, but they’re the ones getting your money. They’re doing extremely well at it so far, but it’s kind of terrifying that such a capitalism singularity is plausible. An HN commenter a while back made the parallel between Amazon and Weyland-Yutani from Alien, which is quite apt.