Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access independent seller data

Re:Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access in... by alextheparrot on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @07:51PM (#23992827)

We’re in agreement about all the basic premises, I think the key points I’d push back with are:

(1) I can’t “easily” register as a seller with Costco, but I can with Amazon (Or so I believe)

(2) The ease with which non-company merchants can enter is a key property of the bazaar vs store dichotomy. Easier to enter, more bazaar-like

(3) Given (2) and (1), it seems like Amazon wants to be both a store and a bazaar, which my initial post articulated as a “problematic” state, at the least. Even if only problematic through novelty

This doesn’t make Amazon good or bad, I can just see where it leads to new discussion

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Re:Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access in... by philwelch on Thursday July 30, 2020 @12:59AM (#23994834)

Sure, but I think it’s somewhat dubious to be immediately suspicious of any successful business model that changes the basic assumptions. Once you start enshrining “this is how we’ve always done it” into law and policy you basically outlaw innovation and start operating in a prohibited-unless-explicitly-allowed rather than allowed-unless-explicitly-prohibited mode.

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