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Amazon's expansion into healthcare is already distressing patients and providers
- CommieBobDole 3y agoAmazon and Google both seem to be speedrunning the usual corporate arc in which companies are founded on innovation, become wildly successful, and then spend decades on a profitable slow decline while they become more and more ossified and bureaucratic, ending in either acquisition or collapse. I wonder if there's something about them that's caused them to become so awful, so quickly? Or has technology just accelerated both the business cycle and the visibility of their failings?
- EchoChamberMan 3y agoTechnology plus a concentration of wealth not seen in a long time, IMO. Enables the wealthy to deregulate the government. Very "tight inner loop" for cartels/monopolies. Damaging and unsustainable, unfortunately for most of us, especially those losing life saving medical services. EU banning Amazon from lobbying Parliment is nice. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39544779 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39544779