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Haven't checked those numbers, but if that 20-80% paid worker's wages, that was a good thing. Also, Amazon reduces the number of players in the market and reduc

• anon9001 6y ago
  > if that 20-80% paid worker's wages, that was a good thing That's actually not a good thing. Something is seriously wrong if we don't value efficiency. Having many separate retail shops creates massive inefficiencies, especially for commodity products. Amazon can get most products to my house at near lowest market rates in a day or two. Sometimes the same day. The problem isn't Amazon, it's our reaction to this newfound efficiency. We're eventually going to end up in a place where having humans doing most work is objectively worse than having robots do it. What we're doing now can't sustain, but going back to a pre-Amazon model of retail is not a viable path forward. Also, working retail sucks. We should be glad when it dies entirely.
  • pvorb 6y ago
    Did it suck before Walmart and Amazon? Probably not as much as it does today.