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Re:Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered shi... by ClumsyPilot on Sunday December 05, 2021 @04:52PM (#29453691)
Taking advantage of your friends doesn't make you a "hyper-optimising machine", it makes you an ass in the short term and a loner with no friends in the long term. Being a sociopath is not an innovation.
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Re:Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered shi... by pm90 on Sunday December 05, 2021 @06:52PM (#29454570)
Why isn’t it an innovation? It’s a pretty brutalist view of how the world works, and is arguably optimizing for the short term over the long one. But it seems to work (and quite well at that).
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Re:Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered shi... by ClumsyPilot on Monday December 06, 2021 @11:10AM (#29461490)
"Why isn’t it an innovation?"

Because mafia has done that and more

"optimizing for the short term over the long one"

A good way to optimise for short term is to become a drug dealer.

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Re:Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered shi... by pm90 on Monday December 06, 2021 @02:33PM (#29464464)
I'm not sure why you feel the need to go to absurd examples to just prove a point. Whatever floats your boat, but this has ceased to be a useful conversation so I'm going to step out of it.
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Re:Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered shi... by ketzo on Sunday December 05, 2021 @05:56PM (#29454204)
Companies are not people, and monopolies (and monopsonies) don’t need friends.
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