> Amazon works toward improving mine and millions of others daily lives

... thousands of small businesses and millions of retail workers are so thankful for this "improvement". The day is nigh where you and I will also get "improved", hopefully!

Occupations are always made obsolete when society advances as a whole and better solutions become available. We would not have progress otherwise.

And one day we'll all be obsolete, implying we won't be able to show our value through our work.

Brave New World. Ideal for a certain social class: the alphas.

Food, material goods, and services are cheaper and more plentiful than they have ever been in human history. Add to that: jobs are easier to discover, self-teach, and contact than they have ever been in human history. For the poor as well as the rich.

The main thing people get unhappy about is wealth disparity ie., how much MORE the rich have than the poor. That even today's poor have a rectangle that's effectively a magic portal to the entire world's knowledge and population is not satisfying to you when you read headlines about Bezos' mansions, right? Allow me to humbly suggest to you that if the dominant emotion of your worldview is envy, you would not have been any happier in decades past.

Nice narrative. Yes, poors are better in a materialistic way. Now, what about their freedom? Is that also getting better? You might recall the magic rectangle from Farenheit 451...

Don't strain your back moving those goal posts. ;)

Not to mention the thousands of workers having to deal with grueling, unsafe work conditions.

You think they’re going to stay that competitive after they monopolize everything?

You think they are monopolizing eveything when they can't even win in tech ecosystems? Their latest outputs are "also-ran" copies like Kindle Fire, Prime Video, etc. They have some more success with private label which magically gets called a monopoly when combined with computers.

They are big and growing but just a bunch of talking heads and campaigns squawking "monopoly" doesn't make it so. Walmart is still bigger as a retail sector so calling #2 a monopoly is jumping the gun.

Well that is the thing about actually being competitive - it makes you the ultimate tall poppy, especially compared to long time lobbyists and vested interests. They made that abundantly clear back in the 90s when that DC was very upset about a lack of lobbying.

My money is on e.g. Alibaba eventually doing the same to Amazon. One of them has a market that provides an obvious cost leadership advantage.

How would you feel if Amazon entered your market and killed your company?

What if it takes them zero effort to do so?

I wouldn't like it of course, but the consumer would win, and it wouldn't be right to sic the government on them because I get outcompeted. Government shouldn't be doing any favors for business, big or small.