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What if, after decades of undercutting the competition, you live in a place where your choices are ordering from Amazon or shopping at Walmart? How do I feed my
by hamandcheese 4y ago
What if, after decades of undercutting the competition, you live in a place where your choices are ordering from Amazon or shopping at Walmart? How do I feed myself without giving money to billionaires?
Moreover, just because one side of a transaction is voluntary doesn’t mean that the entire business is ethical. Plenty of people voluntarily gave their money for cotton harvested by slaves. Does that mean slavery is ethical?
> This is because the sum of morality of small transactions is transitive.
You take this as fact, but I’m not sure I agree. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
- jhgfjhgfjgh 4y agoThere are literally zero laws against setting up a competitor to Amazon or Walmart
- epgui 4y agoWho said the barrier to doing that was the law?
- exabrial 4y agoYou're correct: The barrier to entry involves vision, hard work, education, and willingness to do what other people are simply unmotivated or too lazy to do.
- epgui 4y agoThe most important barriers to competing with the named companies would be network effects and economies of scale, not motivation and a good attitude.