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> I wasn't thinking of employees, but rather people running businesses selling things on Amazon or otherwise using their services. Insofar as Amazon can fire yo
by tehwebguy 6y ago
> I wasn't thinking of employees, but rather people running businesses selling things on Amazon or otherwise using their services. Insofar as Amazon can fire you, they're no different from any small business.
This is a really wild take! Why would Amazon be required to keep doing business with some random product manufacturer or reseller?
- bigbubba 6y agoThere are many small businesses who use Amazon as a platform for reaching their customers. If Amazon kicks them out, their business evaporates in an instant. You may think it's foolish to create such a fragile business. I know I do. But the fact remains that this happens. Ebay and YouTube are to other obvious examples of corporate platforms people use to pay rent, which many cut them off capriciously and without due process. As are mobile appstores, particularly Apple's.
- InitialLastName 6y agoWouldn't that be an argument that we should do something about Amazon's monopoly, then? If they provide the only service that allows some chunk of the economy to function, that should be taken into account when we regulate them more heavily.
- bigbubba 6y agoSure, I'd support that. My above comments are certainly not a suggestion that these companies not be broken up!