Amazon has committed the sin of success, so they're the ones made an example of. Criticizing the myriad businesses that lumber along in Amazon's shadow—whose bu

Amazon has committed the sin of success, so they're the ones made an example of. Criticizing the myriad businesses that lumber along in Amazon's shadow—whose business practices are worse on average—would be pointless, because they're not the ones who so brilliantly and visibly succeeded. Based on that, I don't discount criticisms of Amazon, but rather take them as criticism of the incentive structures in which all businesses operate. The cult of criticism around Bezos is silly, but ignorable. People need something easy to fixate on, and it's hard to do that for something so abstract and complicated as an economic incentive structures.