Amazon buys 11 Boeing 767s to expand its cargo fleet

Re:Amazon buys 11 Boeing 767s to expand its cargo fleet by fumar on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:23PM (#25652020)

Do customers gain from Amazon's increased footprint? They are like a super organism growing and controlling distribution paths. Have there been other companies like Amazon in capitalist history? Google?

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Re:Amazon buys 11 Boeing 767s to expand its cargo fleet by jfim on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:58PM (#25652403)

Probably this one, over four hundred years ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company

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Re:Amazon buys 11 Boeing 767s to expand its cargo fleet by phobosanomaly on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @06:27PM (#25652715)

Super interesting comparison.

From the Wikipedia article:

"...the company traded with Indianised Southeast Asian countries when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on the Dutch spice trade."

It's a dumb comparison, I know, but it strikes me as similar to how Amazon wound up with a pseudo-monopoly on many goods during the pandemic as brick-and-mortars were shuttered.

And a quote in a quote from the article:

"The Dutch, it seems, more than anyone in the West since the palmy days of ancient Rome, had more money than they knew what to do with. They discovered, unlike the Romans, that the best use of money was to make more money."

Weirdly apropos.

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Re:Amazon buys 11 Boeing 767s to expand its cargo fleet by thepace on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @06:06PM (#25652496)

If Amazon turns out to be similar to Dutch East India Company, we are looking at Amazon growing 200 years old with dozens of settlements and colonies all over the world.

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Re:Amazon buys 11 Boeing 767s to expand its cargo fleet by daveslash on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @06:35PM (#25652798)

Re>> "all over the world"

You're forgetting about Blue Origin. Their website has a picture of a rocket standing on the moon that literally says "This Time To Stay"

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Re:Amazon buys 11 Boeing 767s to expand its cargo fleet by alanbernstein on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @06:30PM (#25652751)

Sears

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Re:Amazon buys 11 Boeing 767s to expand its cargo fleet by jerrysievert on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @08:54PM (#25653890)

had sears embraced the internet like amazon did, they'd likely still be a powerhouse.

between their ubiquitous catalogs, trusted brands, huge retail footprint, and huge variety of products (there are tons of craftsman houses in Portland), they had a very large market.

it was sad to see what happened to them.

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