Amazon Must Be Stopped

Re:Amazon Must Be Stopped by bonaldi on Friday October 10, 2014 @06:26AM (#8437031)

There aren't many things on that list that we wouldn't be better off without. Is that really what you meant? You're in favour of big oil companies, hedge funds and the military-industrial complex?

The latter is particularly surprising, unless you think 50% of America's budget going on weaponry to fight threats that don't exist is a productive use of capital

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Re:Amazon Must Be Stopped by dkarapetyan on Friday October 10, 2014 @06:29AM (#8437040)

I'm not in favor or against any of the things I mentioned. I was just trying to make a point about emergent properties of complicated systems like global economies and nation states.

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Re:Amazon Must Be Stopped by humanrebar on Friday October 10, 2014 @06:45AM (#8437087)

> unless you think 50% of America's budget going on weaponry to fight threats that don't exist is a productive use of capital

That is flatly not true. Where do you get your numbers?

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Re:Amazon Must Be Stopped by bonaldi on Friday October 10, 2014 @08:34AM (#8437360)

You're quite right, it's 20%, and still dwarfs other nations. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/07/e...

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Re:Amazon Must Be Stopped by pestaa on Friday October 10, 2014 @06:46AM (#8437092)

Not as a call for citation as I have some basic understanding, but I'd like to learn more about why those threats are considered non-existent and why the USA keeps fighting them.

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