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One one hand this seems like a good thing, though it's really just a band-aid for what a low-quality bargain bin amazon has become. I see other comments about b
by version_five 4y ago
One one hand this seems like a good thing, though it's really just a band-aid for what a low-quality bargain bin amazon has become. I see other comments about being able to dig into reviews by seller and whatnot. I don't want to have to do research like that to buy normal consumer crap. Some might, and that's cool, but I'm sad that any semblance of a curated experience is gone and it's basically just a street corner bazaar where you can't trust anything.
It's interesting to me that amazon, facebook and google, (netflix I'm on the fence about and apple no) have practiced a kind of scorched earth capitalism where they made a lot of money and presumably continue to, but effectively destroyed the environment they operate in. I think most agree that google has hollowed out search into an SEO optimized ad-filled content farm wasteland. Amazon is doing exactly the same thing with retail, they're the biggest name and they've basically created this layer of garbage as the base layer of e-commerce.