"I'm only 32 and I've seen so many companies shutting down..." I'm mostly in agreement with your position, but I just have to add a 54-year old's perspective,

"I'm only 32 and I've seen so many companies shutting down..." I'm mostly in agreement with your position, but I just have to add a 54-year old's perspective, which is that WalMart was doing this before Amazon did. If Amazon hadn't popped up, WalMart would have kept doing it, except without making their website market available to small independent companies. Again, not saying Amazon isn't worryingly large and ruthless, just that this problem started well before them, and if WalMart had become Amazon instead, things would not have been better.