Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless
by olivermarks on Thursday September 13, 2018 @01:07PM
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By centralizing giant swathes of the consumption economy to run through Amazon, destroying jobs at every step of the way. Sweden have banned Amazon so their local economies can flourish. I think this is good macro business logic for a nation state. https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-amazon-competition-ec...
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Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless
by Aunche on Thursday September 13, 2018 @01:44PM
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So Amazon gets credit for killing jobs, but no credit for creating jobs? Without a doubt Ikea has killed the small time furniture making industry, yet is listed as a "charity."
Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless
by chillacy on Thursday September 13, 2018 @02:20PM
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My own company has been slowly getting killed by amazon in the past 10 years, but we’ve also killed countless brick and mortar stores along the way. Where will we draw the line? Are we to fight the newfound efficiencies of technologies like the Luddites?
Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless
by opencl on Thursday September 13, 2018 @02:42PM
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Sweden did not ban Amazon. Amazon just doesn't operate in Sweden (yet). People in Sweden can already buy things from the other EU Amazon stores.
Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless
by olivermarks on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:55PM
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I'm not sure that's accurate, I think there has been considerable political and therefore bureaucratic opposition to Amazon in Sweden