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I don't want to live in a place where your hard, honest work is expropriated because others are butthurt about your success.

by sandov 7y ago

bjz_ 7y ago
Can't you be content with the fact that your work impacts and improves the lives of billions of people? What gives you the right to maintain a stranglehold over a market and drive off competition simply because you were lucky enough to be first to implement an idea, or had the fortune to have enough resources to stick it through the hard times? Also note that companies are far from honest in this work - just look at what Google is doing to erode the web platform, and how it is leveraging it's search monopoly to drive businesses towards paying for ads.
cptaj 7y ago
Most definitely not expropiation. I said regulation. You keep your company, but after a certain size, you're obliged to treat the OTHER hard working companies living on your platform with respect and not completely destroy them on a whim. An example: A friend of mine worked for a battery selling business. They had most of their sales in Amazon. Everything was fine, they had a few years at this and around 100 employees. One day, Amazon decided one of their papers or whatever wasn't good and closed them down. The appeal process too 3 weeks and bankrupted them. Amazon was wrong. Now, you think that's fair? All that hard work and all those people out on the street because some dumbass in amazon's underpaid customer service centers fucked up? Like I'm saying, there needs to be due process. They shouldn't be able to that.
- analognoise 7y ago
  If you were dumb enough to run a business that only had a 3 week runway with ~100 employees and you relied entirely on someone else's platform without developing a sustaining channel for several years, that's not Amazon's problem - Amazon isn't responsible for other people's idiocy.

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I don't want to live in a place where your hard, honest work is expropriated because others are butthurt about your success.

by sandov 7y ago

I don't want to live in a place where your hard, honest work is expropriated because others are butthurt about your success.

bjz_ 7y ago
Can't you be content with the fact that your work impacts and improves the lives of billions of people? What gives you the right to maintain a stranglehold over a market and drive off competition simply because you were lucky enough to be first to implement an idea, or had the fortune to have enough resources to stick it through the hard times? Also note that companies are far from honest in this work - just look at what Google is doing to erode the web platform, and how it is leveraging it's search monopoly to drive businesses towards paying for ads.
cptaj 7y ago
Most definitely not expropiation. I said regulation. You keep your company, but after a certain size, you're obliged to treat the OTHER hard working companies living on your platform with respect and not completely destroy them on a whim. An example: A friend of mine worked for a battery selling business. They had most of their sales in Amazon. Everything was fine, they had a few years at this and around 100 employees. One day, Amazon decided one of their papers or whatever wasn't good and closed them down. The appeal process too 3 weeks and bankrupted them. Amazon was wrong. Now, you think that's fair? All that hard work and all those people out on the street because some dumbass in amazon's underpaid customer service centers fucked up? Like I'm saying, there needs to be due process. They shouldn't be able to that.
- analognoise 7y ago
  If you were dumb enough to run a business that only had a 3 week runway with ~100 employees and you relied entirely on someone else's platform without developing a sustaining channel for several years, that's not Amazon's problem - Amazon isn't responsible for other people's idiocy.