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[quote=Anonymous]Anyone who has read a little bit into it knows how Amazon is a huge monopoly now in many spheres of life and business (AWS). If you need anything, chance is there is not a single store around you that will have it - but Amazon does. Example - try to buy a decent stainless steel frying pan or pot. How many stores will you go to before you find something not too shabby. Amazon has been fighting unionization, greenwashing their carbon footprint, etc. Read the stories how drivers cannot take a break? Extorting book sellers for rock-bottom prices, having huge fees for small sellers or copying innovative products under its Amazon Basics brand. Media stories galore over the last 10+ years. Yet we shop there. The convenience is unbeatable. Today everything is about convenience and lack of pain/discomfort. So, the real reason for boycotting Amazon is that it is too big to the point it creates negative externalities for the system as a whole. When people say we have a choice, not really. Target was the local brick-n-mortar alternative. Exclude both from your shopping and you are in a tough spot. Add three children and a wife, and full-time jobs in the office, and good luck managing a household without any sort of convenience of online shopping. In the end, we will pay dearly with our own freedom. United States grew fastest and created the most wealth for average citizens when there was a lot of competition among companies, not when we had mega monopolies in every sphere of life and out of this world income inequality. Monopoly and oligarchy were anti-American concepts.

When I think more about it, it is just an evolutionary period. We are not going back, so time to pull out your phone, open amazon app and order something made in china. Mr. Xi needs his exports, because nobody over there is buying the knick-knacks. [/quote]

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