https://doctorow.medium.com/view-a-sku-32721d623aee
"Here’s a dirty secret of the antitrust movement: Amazon is very convenient!
It’s not just that they have a lot of inventory and make it easy to get things
shipped to your door quickly and efficiently. It’s also that their predatory
pricing has finished off much of the retail that survived Walmart.
“Voting with your wallet” is a dubious occupation at best, but it’s actually
counterproductive if you find yourself driving or phoning around for hours,
looking for local merchants to buy things from. That’s time you could be
spending pursuing structural changes to our society’s structural problems, or
just relaxing with a book so you’ll have the energy to pursue those structural
changes later.
But what if buying local was as easy as shopping at Amazon? What if you could
buy local
while shopping on Amazon?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
