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It's a little baffling how monstrously big Amazon has become over the years. Pretty soon there won't be an industry left untouched by Amazon's tentacles. Hard t
by briga 6y ago
It's a little baffling how monstrously big Amazon has become over the years. Pretty soon there won't be an industry left untouched by Amazon's tentacles. Hard to see how they can continue down this path without getting broken up.
On the bright side: each new satellite launch should lower the barrier to entry for the next satellite launch. This combined with growing competition in the space industry could lead the way to commercially viable spaceflight. There's so much opportunity for off-planet industry, it'll be pretty exciting to see where all of this leads.
- missedthecue 6y agoIt's regrettable and bitterly discouraging that the more Amazon works toward improving mine and millions of others daily lives, the closer they get to being broken up. At least, that's the way I see it. They've added new competition in so many areas. They've saved the consumer so much money that the federal reserve literally blamed them for lowering inflation, but instead, the federal government as painfully ironic as it is, views Amazon as the bloated overreaching organization.
- postpawl 6y agoYou think they’re going to stay that competitive after they monopolize everything?
- Nasrudith 6y agoYou think they are monopolizing eveything when they can't even win in tech ecosystems? Their latest outputs are "also-ran" copies like Kindle Fire, Prime Video, etc. They have some more success with private label which magically gets called a monopoly when combined with computers. They are big and growing but just a bunch of talking heads and campaigns squawking "monopoly" doesn't make it so. Walmart is still bigger as a retail sector so calling #2 a monopoly is jumping the gun.
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- Nasrudith 6y agoWell that is the thing about actually being competitive - it makes you the ultimate tall poppy, especially compared to long time lobbyists and vested interests. They made that abundantly clear back in the 90s when that DC was very upset about a lack of lobbying.
- rscho 6y ago> Amazon works toward improving mine and millions of others daily lives ... thousands of small businesses and millions of retail workers are so thankful for this "improvement". The day is nigh where you and I will also get "improved", hopefully!
- systemcluster 6y agoOccupations are always made obsolete when society advances as a whole and better solutions become available. We would not have progress otherwise.
- rscho 6y agoAnd one day we'll all be obsolete, implying we won't be able to show our value through our work. Brave New World. Ideal for a certain social class: the alphas.
- saas_sam 6y agoFood, material goods, and services are cheaper and more plentiful than they have ever been in human history. Add to that: jobs are easier to discover, self-teach, and contact than they have ever been in human history. For the poor as well as the rich. The main thing people get unhappy about is wealth disparity ie., how much MORE the rich have than the poor. That even today's poor have a rectangle that's effectively a magic portal to the entire world's knowledge and population is not satisfying to you when you read headlines about Bezos' mansions, right? Allow me to humbly suggest to you that if the dominant emotion of your worldview is envy, you would not have been any happier in decades past.
- rscho 6y agoNice narrative. Yes, poors are better in a materialistic way. Now, what about their freedom? Is that also getting better? You might recall the magic rectangle from Farenheit 451...
- richardw 6y agoMy money is on e.g. Alibaba eventually doing the same to Amazon. One of them has a market that provides an obvious cost leadership advantage.
- echelon 6y agoHow would you feel if Amazon entered your market and killed your company? What if it takes them zero effort to do so?
- missedthecue 6y agoI wouldn't like it of course, but the consumer would win, and it wouldn't be right to sic the government on them because I get outcompeted. Government shouldn't be doing any favors for business, big or small.
- rscho 6y agoPretty exciting, yeah. Let me guess. Richer riches and poorer poors? I hope you'll enjoy the view from your off-planet 2 m^3 residential cubicle.
- dogma1138 6y agoI am still waiting for them to go into housing, with prefab and automation seems like the logical next step.