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I for one really enjoy Amazon’s dominion. If your old enough to remember the Bell System before it was broken up, the airlines before they were deregulated, Amt
by zxcvbn4038 7y ago
I for one really enjoy Amazon’s dominion. If your old enough to remember the Bell System before it was broken up, the airlines before they were deregulated, Amtrak before they lost government funding, or the postal service before they had to sell out to all the direct mailers to turn a profit — I’d say every once in a while the economists and political scientists can step back and take a break. Seriously. Fly Emirates, ride Eurorail, switch to T-Mobile, burn your mailbox - I think that is about as close as you can get these days. Since the US stopped subsidizing the dairy industry, the snap crackle pop of my cocoa crispies cost as much as a real breakfast. Two industries I’d love to see Amazon disrupt next are healthcare and car rentals. They are both overrun with vested interests and old fogies that have forgotten what a customer is. Amazon could be the first company to have an significant and quantifiable interest in their customers not dying AND do something about it. What customer would be more loyal then the one whose life you literally saved? I’m also pretty sure the entire IRS could be an Alexa skill and I wouldn’t shed a tear if it were. How is democracy working out for us these days? I kinda think it’s been swirling since about 1963, give or take, maybe Jeff Bezos should be King? Sure some people won’t be happy but no matter what you do some people never will be.