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There are always so many blindly pro-business comments on stories like this, like when the Theranos stuff was happening, people were saying "come on, she was ju
by dgreensp 3y ago
There are always so many blindly pro-business comments on stories like this, like when the Theranos stuff was happening, people were saying "come on, she was just pitching big returns and innovations like any start-up does," ignoring the difference between pitching and straight-up lying or deliberately misleading investors about current facts. Similarly, it seems like many commenters are defending Amazon not based on the facts or legalities of the situation, but just from a place of being more emotionally sympathetic to a giant corporation trying to make a lot of money through various business tactics.
We don't have a surplus of regulation in the US (contrary to what Republicans who want to get rid of the EPA, FDA, etc would say). When we actually have laws that say things like, you can't union-bust, you can't defraud investors, you can't behave monopolistically--and there may be subtleties to those laws that most people don't understand--and companies go so far as to violate those laws, it's a very good thing when they face consequences.
- rottencupcakes 3y agoVC Twitter's crazy right now. It's as if Amazon was everybody's best friend. User xattt says in a different thread on this story (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37667379 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37667379) > I bet dollars-to-donuts that half of those folks don’t know how to articulate the sentimental attachment to their Prime subscription either. It seems that applies up and down the population.
- jdminhbg 3y ago> There are always so many blindly pro-business comments on stories like this Where? All of the comments above yours are anti-Amazon. Regardless of which “side” is “right,” I don’t think you can argue that HN has a blind pro-big-business slant.
- jplusequalt 3y agoMaybe not a "blind" slant, but there is a slant nonetheless. I frequent programming communities on twitter, reddit, etc. and HN is consistently the place with the most sympathy for corporations. (In my experience it's also the community that has the most anti-intellectualism/distrust of science as well, but that's a discussion for another time)