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Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by EGreg on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @10:29AM (#37765740)
That's the same trap that TikTok influencers and others fall into.

You are sold "the dream" by showing top sellers / influencers / etc. and told you can be like them. Kevin O'Leary became a meme for promoting this bullshit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuqemytQ5QA

In fact, even the top influencers can be deplatformed in an instant, and their speech is controlled. And same with Amazon. But the thing is that the people you never hear about, the "middle class", are far more controlled and the "long tail" produces all that free content that basically gets almost new views / buys but all that free sharecropper content is then used to train AI models or provide proof of large available inventory / product / content BY THE PLATFORM that pits them all against each other in a zero-sum game.

https://www.reddit.com/r/quotes/comments/117oh1m/the_upper_c...

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Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by throw0101a on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @11:26AM (#37766563)
> Kevin O'Leary became a meme for promoting this bullshit:

The women is Amanda Lang,[1] and the two were a 'duo' for many years with a business/finance reporting show. I'm not sure how she managed to put up with him for so long. :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Lang

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