I have been boycotting them since 2015 and everyone thinks I am nuts. Amazon has always been a horrible company and I refuse to spend a dime with them anymore. It really sucks because I was their customer when it was just books.
@@douglaspouch5313Thank you for being sensible. Just by virtue of having a perspective a minimal bias is introduced. The only way to reality is through communication with others. That's what makes investigation robust.
I stopped shopping at Amazon for about 5 years. I came back after a move because I needed things for the new place that I was struggling to find as a good fit locally and my budget shrank. For over a year I bought a lot of stuff on Amazon. Unfortunately it's the best I can do right now for many things, but once I get back on my feet then I'll be looking elsewhere.
You haven’t shopped* at Amazon but you still use their technologies whether you realize it or not. Amazon doesn’t get this big without touching some aspect of everyone’s lives. Even now TH-cam uses portions of AWS along with Google cloud technologies.
As long as American corporations continue to outsource our manufacturing and assembly jobs, stock their warehouses full of the same China or Mexico sourced junk as Amazon, why shouldn’t we cut out the middleman and buy from Amazon, AliExpress, Alibaba or Temu cheaper??? Amazon is in the process of moving to China to cut out their own middlemen suppliers here in the USA. You can thank our greedy politicians and corporate execs for these consequences. Enjoy.
I boycott Amazon (have not ordered anything in over a year) on account that they refuse to pay taxes. When they start paying taxes, I'll start ordering again. God bless...🕊
@gianttigerfilms As children in Jamaica, whenever you ask Y, the reply usually was: If you cut off the tail, you have V. And V is for a vagabond like you. Seriously, when you have billionaires steadfastly seeking to remove someone who'll put a wrench in their illegal & unethical business practices as they seek excessive profits, the correlation is as stark as noon on a sunny, cloudless day in summer!?
I wonder how long before Amazon and others start to adopt the “plata o pluma” strategy and start using the latter option against those who accept the former i.e. physically harming those who can’t/won’t be bought off.
Every major western country has healthcare for free because its moral. EU has Unions in Amazon EU because its moral. We need jail time for these Executives this just isnt fair in anyway shape or form.
I loooaathe when anyone says "Amazon started out of a garage"... That's complete BS. Jeff's always had cash -even when he was "sTaRtiNg AmAzOn oUt oF hiS gArAgE"
The lie is such an obvious one, and one can only assume it's done in the same spirit of all scammers lies - to separate the gullible from the intelligent.
Amazon switches screens & Prices on user as they shop. You select a product with feature & price, they switch the screen with similar product/higher price. If you're not careful before you add to cart, you get cheated. Another one is price change. I selected a shirt for under $20. When I received it, it was billed @ $25. Even though it was "free return", the Return option was taken away.
I looked into selling a product on both ebay and amazon, and its insane, they want about 25% to 50% of your sales. That is a giant tax. Amazon took over because of the stock market that gave it billions to lose as part of winner-take-all approach of the internet, and the us government that said no sales taxes can be charged for them, unlike all other local business. This went on for years until they dominated, then the sales taxes were added. Now amazon screws suppliers by making returns so simple you lose another 10-20% of your sales to returns. First amazon guaranteed 2-day delivery, then they did nothing buy lie about it. Now the returns will be getting 'restocking fees', that don't go to the product supplier, but go to Amazon. Just wait soon they will screw everyone to make billions more for themselves. Because there is no alternative left.
@@gervas4935 I still can not rap my head around the fact that Trump has 34 felony convictions. He carries on each day as if nothing has happened. And running 🏃 for President. You gotta be 💩 kidding me! 😫🫤🥺😖😔😩🧐 OMG. 😳, people are going to vote for him, 💩
Then blame the F***** SYSTEM! You people are all "NO COMMUNISM! NO SOCIALISM!" and then cry around about capitalism day in and out. Guess what: if you want to get rid of these problems, you must switch to socialism.
"I'm a donor and an expert, and I'm going to separate those two roles." That is not how public profiles or political influence work. It would take extraordinary integrity built up over a lifetime to credibly maintain that one aspect of your life was not influencing the other, and this guy pretty clearly lacks that.
Monopolies are unilateral without opposition. But oligopolies have a weak spot. Because they are one of a few, they'd have to collude to set prices. And therein lies the weakness as a disgruntled player could untangle this illegality or authorities could objectively discover the price fixing/gouging!?
He can separate those two things in his mind all he wants, but when he's talking to shareholders, they all know exactly what they're doing. Investing in politicians and expecting returns for their bottom lines.
Thank you for covering this. I get sick when I see bezos going to White House events, and I keep wondering why the government hasn’t done more to put them in their place.
Same with EBay, Shopify, Lyft, Uber, Tiktok, and TH-cam. Just like Amazon if those went away small and medium businesses would go away right with it. Amazon is a marketplace with many smaller businesses selling their own products and Amazon also sells it's own products. Marketplaces are platforms used by others.Sometimes by those using it as a side hustle. Should Amazon be regulated even more. Yes. Should the government just get rid of it No...
I noticed the influx of medicine commercials from Amazon. They are now trying to corner the market on medicine and pharmacy. It’s just SICK. It’s the movie Sorry to Bother You coming to real life.
The United States has invested in GMO research and products around the world and at home so they can produce enough to help feed the world. I was buying 365 Whole Foods from Canada and it became available on Amazon and I continued purchasing through Amazon😊 I noticed that some of the products were being grown and manufactured in various foreign countries rather than Canada after Amazon purchased 365 Whole Foods and ruin the company and their products😢 Amazon treats their workers horrible as well😮
@@miriamweller812 What does that have to do with what she's saying? She's saying that since Amazon bought 365 Whole Foods Canada, they made the subsidiary stop buying only food from Canada, and source from anywhere, which she doesn't like.
Lets boycott Lyft, Uber, and EBay too. Sellers and people who rely on those platforms would be the ones boycotted. Amazon is a marketplace who just so happens to also sell their own products. If you want Amazon to play fair than regulate them.
@@saylaveenadmearedeadeBay. You have to plan a little better cause you won’t get it the next day. But I’ve had no trouble using it as a substitute for Amazon for pretty much everything.
Amazon became great because it earned the trust of its customers. Its return policy was a key pillar of this trust. When customers no longer trust Amazon, that’s when it will decline.
Amazon is used as distaction since years, since it's an incredible harmless company for its size. You can easily avoid amazon with no problem, because they don't control anything you need to live. By pushing all the focus on amazon over nothing, the distract the stupid from the real issue, all the oligarchs who control the means of production needed by people to survive and by that got all the power.
I have never shopped on Amazon, been on Facebook or Twitter, or taken an Uber, I don't buy overpriced coffee from Starbucks have never Snaped or Instagram
Business as usual in the USA, but that is what happens when you have no guard rails in place to properly check/curtail the darker sides of human behavior.
You'd think these proud leftist journalists might mention who you'd vote for to get change, right here in this context. Nah. We're the crowd, they're above us and we shouldn't try to contextualize their reality.
Whatever the issues are with Amazon, it is the MOST convenient shopping platform with products delivered right to your door, including a lot of remote places. I and, I'm sure a LOT of people are just not interested in dealing with overcrowded stores and parking lots, , disgruntled employees and just human beings in general. So we may pay a bit more, but you can still shop smart. Also a LOT of products cost more in other stores and their online sites than on Amazon. None of the major corporations are clean.
The mani problem is that one American can contribute $10,000,000 to a campaign. Democracy is over, I'm not going to vote this time around, or ever again.
That’s right. Democracy is now an illusion, a facade constructed to give a false impression of fairness in the electoral system. But of course nothing could be further from the truth. The system is rigged and bought off by the highest bidders. That’s why voting is absolutely pointless, a mere formality
Amazon will die as a victim of its own success. They cut the margins so thin that they hired an absolute garbage courier services (here in Canada), discouraging repeated business.
I always thought the point of business was to make a good life for yourself doing what you love. Instead, it's been twisted into making as much money as possible and crushing everything else.
I worked in a cube farm back in the late 90s and sat next to the IT guy who was trying to convince me to buy this stock named after a river that sold books online. "I thought online books were going to replace paper books?" I passed. He's probably a millionaire by now. It was 18 a share as I recall I think it's now about ten times that. If you bought 100 shares in 1997 it would be worth over 180,000
That Hoffman is capable of keeping conversations separate does not mean that he does not embody two separate agendas. Being of one body, he may have one goal for himself. Keeping conversations separate could be a matter of appearance and he could also be lying.
Yep, he's tricky, maybe even fooling himself. Execs like him brag to the shareholders about manipulating the market and buying politicians, then lie to the press and say it's all about the consumers.
Libgen, Z-library, and RECAP became human rights projects, just like Brewster's archive. It's IP law which is corrupt, when tax subsidized research conducted via slave labor (grad students) gets turned over to Elsevier and similar, or Bono & Paraguay harmonization are used to "re-virginate" public domain content for durations of legal fictions, not natural persons (even if that same basis is used to exclude AI-assisted works from protections).
Amazon became huge in part because brick-and-mortar retailers ignored customers for too long. They could not ship to your home. They could not transfer in a product for you. Many did not have time for customers. They would tell you to drive to the next store.
Based on the images you provided, we can discuss the concept of monopoly and market concentration: 1. First Image (Consumer Brands Consolidation): • This image shows the vast number of popular consumer brands controlled by a small number of large corporations. Each of these corporations has significant control over the market in specific sectors (e.g., food, beverages, household products). While this level of concentration does not necessarily constitute a monopoly (which is when a single company dominates the entire market), it does indicate an oligopoly where a few companies have substantial market power. 2. Second Image (Media Consolidation): • The second image illustrates how media ownership in the United States has consolidated over time. In 1983, 90% of American media was owned by 50 companies, but by 2011, that same percentage was controlled by just six companies. This high level of concentration in media ownership is a sign of oligopoly, where a small number of firms have significant control over the media landscape. This can lead to reduced competition, which is a characteristic of monopolistic behavior, even if these companies are not technically monopolies. Conclusion: • Monopoly typically refers to a market where one company dominates, without any significant competitors. In the images you’ve shared, the situation is more of an oligopoly-where a few large companies dominate the market. • Therefore, while none of the companies shown in these images would technically be considered a monopoly on their own, they do exhibit characteristics of oligopolies, which can have similar effects on market competition and consumer choice as monopolies. If you want to identify specific companies that might be closer to monopolistic practices within their respective markets, it would involve analyzing each company’s market share, their competition, and the barriers to entry in their industry.
Vice President Harris should make sure President Biden's FTC Chair Lena Khan stays EXACTLY where she is, doing EXACTLY what she's doing. The American people deserve nothing less. These conglomerates are stifling innovation and smothering small businesses.
So I went to Amazon's home page and I typed in "The Everything War" into the search box. Amazon finds the complete title, but it won't show me the book. I get redirected to books about World War 2.
Amazon gets into Western Washington outside Seattle tax free, builds and builds. The towns and cities have no funding. But they're always open to more Amazon.
Plus they're bad at payment processing sometimes taking over a week, and bad at delivery if I were to order on 1st of month, everything or part of order would show by the 3rd week of the month and at times the 4th week. Its terrible. Don't shop there.
That is antisemitic bullsh*t. They are plenty awful, and there is a lot wrong with our capitalistic marketplace, but they aren't all Jews...and even if they were, so what.
these global online retailers should be getting 10% MAX..thats including VALVE with STEAM...30% 50% thats completely ludicrous. Also online only software should be flat out illegal.
Even as a consumer I’ve noticed weird things with Amazon, such as automatically changed shipping speed, as if there were some algorithm built into their site designed to save money at the micro level through deceptive means. I don’t have the proof but feel certain of it. Maybe it’s in the book!
The over hiring at Amazon and other tech companies ruined Seattle. A bunch of overpaid people that companies don't need that get paid way more than professions that the city does need. All tech companies should let go of at least 70 percent of their useless staff that make useless $hit that we really don't need
Right... how did he not see this coming??? Bozo could hand Amazon over to his employees and live his life with wealth and leasure on his other companies. Will he do that?
What are the customers to do? Brick-and-mortar stores closed, small business closing up. Their customers need everything for their kitchen, home. car, garage; their basics clothing. There is no down the street if you are not living in a city, and most residential areas are in bedroom communities or further out in county or small towns to live at more reasonable prices and safety from urban crime. This is why Amazon is winning, recently however free Returns are required to be at a UPS or FedEx store. Things like this indicate Amazon is in trouble again. I cancel anything that does not provide a tracking number, or meet the delivery date (a day or two is understandable). It seems nothing ever happens to Walmart or Amazon.
Lena Khan's enemies tell us more about how well she is doing than anyone or anything else. Keep on doing what you're doing, Lena!
Exactly 💯
Exactly and she must be protected at all costs. I wouldn't be surprised if they hate her more than they hate Bernie Sanders.
Lina Khan's work is crucial!
I have been boycotting them since 2015 and everyone thinks I am nuts. Amazon has always been a horrible company and I refuse to spend a dime with them anymore. It really sucks because I was their customer when it was just books.
I'm so tired of rich people justifying their bad deeds.
I always appreciate this channels' informative, unbiased reporting. No opinions. Just news. Thank you 👍
There's no such thing as unbiased reporting. Sorry.
@@douglaspouch5313 that's your biased opinion and you're entitled to it. I disagree.
@@amyjordan7882 In fact, no unbiased human-being has ever existed.
Did you graduate from high school?? This channel is _obviously_ leftist. Amy Goodman is as liberal as it gets.
@@douglaspouch5313Thank you for being sensible. Just by virtue of having a perspective a minimal bias is introduced. The only way to reality is through communication with others. That's what makes investigation robust.
Proudly haven't used Amazon since 2019, even through the pandemic, and my life was just fine. Stop the mindless overconsumption.
I stopped shopping at Amazon for about 5 years. I came back after a move because I needed things for the new place that I was struggling to find as a good fit locally and my budget shrank. For over a year I bought a lot of stuff on Amazon. Unfortunately it's the best I can do right now for many things, but once I get back on my feet then I'll be looking elsewhere.
Same! Quit in 2019 and never looked back.
You haven’t shopped* at Amazon but you still use their technologies whether you realize it or not. Amazon doesn’t get this big without touching some aspect of everyone’s lives. Even now TH-cam uses portions of AWS along with Google cloud technologies.
As long as American corporations continue to outsource our manufacturing and assembly jobs, stock their warehouses full of the same China or Mexico sourced junk as Amazon, why shouldn’t we cut out the middleman and buy from Amazon, AliExpress, Alibaba or Temu cheaper??? Amazon is in the process of moving to China to cut out their own middlemen suppliers here in the USA. You can thank our greedy politicians and corporate execs for these consequences. Enjoy.
always mindful shopping anywhere
I boycott Amazon (have not ordered anything in over a year) on account that they refuse to pay taxes. When they start paying taxes, I'll start ordering again. God bless...🕊
Good job. Did that fix the problem? Or do we need action at a higher level?
Thank you for being a good person 🙏🏾
They do pay taxes. You are a numbskull
LINA KHAN is the ultimate ethical professional - CAN'T BE BOUGHT!?
I hope not, rn she's saving my lost faith in reform
@gianttigerfilms As children in Jamaica, whenever you ask Y, the reply usually was: If you cut off the tail, you have V. And V is for a vagabond like you. Seriously, when you have billionaires steadfastly seeking to remove someone who'll put a wrench in their illegal & unethical business practices as they seek excessive profits, the correlation is as stark as noon on a sunny, cloudless day in summer!?
@@franklinchinquee8762 that "Y" comment wad a typo I thought I deleted hah you called me a Vagabond
I wonder how long before Amazon and others start to adopt the “plata o pluma” strategy and start using the latter option against those who accept the former i.e. physically harming those who can’t/won’t be bought off.
Every major western country has healthcare for free because its moral. EU has Unions in Amazon EU because its moral. We need jail time for these Executives this just isnt fair in anyway shape or form.
I hope the google ruling sets a strong precedent, re-invigorating the busting of monopolies in America.
Rail companies used to be forbidden from owning both tracks and any train cars that ran on them. This is why.
Yep, we're going back to having to learn all this the hard way. The difference is by the time we learn it, it's going to be way too late.
@@watamatafoyu Same for far too many things these days.
I wish their practices with independent trucking companies is investigated.
Every part of Amazon should be investigated. Their business practices are shady at all levels.
I avoid giving any money to Amazon, Chick Fil A, Hobby lobby, Starbucks, Musk, and more
So do I! I hate AMAZON. AMAZON REPRESENTS PURE EVIL ON EARTH...😮 1:09
Girl SAME!! I haven't shopped at Hobby Lobby since around 2008, Chick Fil A around 2010.
@@danielsilveira0041 Not ture, YOU don't care. There are a lot of us who DO.
@@danielsilveira0041EXACTLY
All 5 dollars of your disposal income?
I loooaathe when anyone says "Amazon started out of a garage"... That's complete BS. Jeff's always had cash -even when he was "sTaRtiNg AmAzOn oUt oF hiS gArAgE"
Yeah his five car garage 😂
Yah his garage and a $250K gift from his parents.
The lie is such an obvious one, and one can only assume it's done in the same spirit of all scammers lies - to separate the gullible from the intelligent.
Amazon switches screens & Prices on user as they shop. You select a product with feature & price, they switch the screen with similar product/higher price. If you're not careful before you add to cart, you get cheated.
Another one is price change. I selected a shirt for under $20. When I received it, it was billed @ $25. Even though it was "free return", the Return option was taken away.
@@iq-ride9329 need to do a screenshot
I looked into selling a product on both ebay and amazon, and its insane, they want about 25% to 50% of your sales. That is a giant tax.
Amazon took over because of the stock market that gave it billions to lose as part of winner-take-all approach of the internet, and the us government that said no sales taxes can be charged for them, unlike all other local business. This went on for years until they dominated, then the sales taxes were added. Now amazon screws suppliers by making returns so simple you lose another 10-20% of your sales to returns. First amazon guaranteed 2-day delivery, then they did nothing buy lie about it. Now the returns will be getting 'restocking fees', that don't go to the product supplier, but go to Amazon. Just wait soon they will screw everyone to make billions more for themselves. Because there is no alternative left.
It’ll be interesting to see how hard the RNC works to suppress this information. Great reporting, Dana Mattioli!
Both parties suppress this information.
@@Amarok-p6lwell da ! My representative & Congress person, does not work for me , or represent me. They work and represent $ 💵 money ! 😢💩🥺😫😖😩
This is great for showcasing the war executives are waging on consumers.
And their employees. They prey on all of us.
Name one billion dollar company that has not spied, lied, and cheated its way to the top!
There are none ! Can’t be done ☑️😖😫😩
But some do it alot more than others and breaking the law should not be tolorated.
Instagram before being purchased by Facebook
@@gervas4935 I still can not rap my head around the fact that Trump has 34 felony convictions. He carries on each day as if nothing has happened. And running 🏃 for President. You gotta be 💩 kidding me! 😫🫤🥺😖😔😩🧐 OMG. 😳, people are going to vote for him, 💩
@blahanger4304 how do we implement and enforce ethics? 🥸🤓😎🥺🫤
"Amazon has received atleast 4.7 Billion in state and federal subsidies around the World"
- Google
Then blame the F***** SYSTEM! You people are all "NO COMMUNISM! NO SOCIALISM!" and then cry around about capitalism day in and out.
Guess what: if you want to get rid of these problems, you must switch to socialism.
and Amazon is evil and funds legal "ish" slavery AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING, AND IS IN BED WITH EPSTIEN, MUSK, AND WEF
Boycott Amazon.
I think that is probably a low figure the United States post office was loosing money hand over fist for years because of Amazon.
@@breal7277and do what buy everything from Walmart 😂😂
"I'm a donor and an expert, and I'm going to separate those two roles." That is not how public profiles or political influence work. It would take extraordinary integrity built up over a lifetime to credibly maintain that one aspect of your life was not influencing the other, and this guy pretty clearly lacks that.
Monopolies are unilateral without opposition. But oligopolies have a weak spot. Because they are one of a few, they'd have to collude to set prices. And therein lies the weakness as a disgruntled player could untangle this illegality or authorities could objectively discover the price fixing/gouging!?
He can separate those two things in his mind all he wants, but when he's talking to shareholders, they all know exactly what they're doing. Investing in politicians and expecting returns for their bottom lines.
WOW! Whatever happens? WE NEED LENA KAHN AND MORE STAND UP PEOPLE LIKE HER!! GOD BLESS LENA KAHN!!
Wow this is beyond the ripping people off
Thank you for covering this. I get sick when I see bezos going to White House events, and I keep wondering why the government hasn’t done more to put them in their place.
❤❤❤ Lina Khan!
The land of the monopolies.
Amazon needs to go
Same with EBay, Shopify, Lyft, Uber, Tiktok, and TH-cam. Just like Amazon if those went away small and medium businesses would go away right with it. Amazon is a marketplace with many smaller businesses selling their own products and Amazon also sells it's own products. Marketplaces are platforms used by others.Sometimes by those using it as a side hustle.
Should Amazon be regulated even more. Yes. Should the government just get rid of it No...
I noticed the influx of medicine commercials from Amazon. They are now trying to corner the market on medicine and pharmacy. It’s just SICK. It’s the movie Sorry to Bother You coming to real life.
The United States has invested in GMO research and products around the world and at home so they can produce enough to help feed the world. I was buying 365 Whole Foods from Canada and it became available on Amazon and I continued purchasing through Amazon😊 I noticed that some of the products were being grown and manufactured in various foreign countries rather than Canada after Amazon purchased 365 Whole Foods and ruin the company and their products😢 Amazon treats their workers horrible as well😮
You do get, that amazon is mainly a market place and not selling that stuff themselves, right?
prolly why they just made it law that amazon can be held accountable for any unsafe products sold on their platform
@@miriamweller812 What does that have to do with what she's saying? She's saying that since Amazon bought 365 Whole Foods Canada, they made the subsidiary stop buying only food from Canada, and source from anywhere, which she doesn't like.
Isn’t that the American way? Do anything to win!!!
Yeap it is. America is an obligarchy.
They talk about America and mean their own personal business.
I am so glad that I have never bought anything from Amazon!!
Boycott Amazon!
Alternatives? In Hawaii we need other stores to step up. Walmart and Costco are still the top sellers of common goods.
Good luck with that
No, that will screw us over in the warehouses. Instead become a socialist and demand an end to capitalism
Lets boycott Lyft, Uber, and EBay too. Sellers and people who rely on those platforms would be the ones boycotted. Amazon is a marketplace who just so happens to also sell their own products. If you want Amazon to play fair than regulate them.
@@saylaveenadmearedeadeBay. You have to plan a little better cause you won’t get it the next day. But I’ve had no trouble using it as a substitute for Amazon for pretty much everything.
Amazon became great because it earned the trust of its customers. Its return policy was a key pillar of this trust. When customers no longer trust Amazon, that’s when it will decline.
So Amazon is the Standard Oil of the 21st century, just more slick and sophisticated
Well they aren't supporting eugenics at least
@@patrickday4206crazy how a lot of people don't know that about that
Wow. The WSJ is reporting on this?
Colour me surprised.
Amazon is used as distaction since years, since it's an incredible harmless company for its size. You can easily avoid amazon with no problem, because they don't control anything you need to live.
By pushing all the focus on amazon over nothing, the distract the stupid from the real issue, all the oligarchs who control the means of production needed by people to survive and by that got all the power.
Hi, ...uh... 1970 called... it wants its phrase back, lol. Just kidding please... lol. Blessings to you and yours.
@@lunchguy659 the 1990s called and wanted the phrase "1970 called and wanted their phrase back"
😁
@@Emanon... 😆
Amazon rips people off
Are we surprised in a almost fully commoditized society where corporations have tremendous power.
I cancelled Amazon. They are a racketeering org.
I have never shopped on Amazon, been on Facebook or Twitter, or taken an Uber, I don't buy overpriced coffee from Starbucks have never Snaped or Instagram
Business as usual in the USA, but that is what happens when you have no guard rails in place to properly check/curtail the darker sides of human behavior.
You'd think these proud leftist journalists might mention who you'd vote for to get change, right here in this context. Nah. We're the crowd, they're above us and we shouldn't try to contextualize their reality.
The fact that they want to get rid of Khan is reason to keep her.
Whatever the issues are with Amazon, it is the MOST convenient shopping platform with products delivered right to your door, including a lot of remote places. I and, I'm sure a LOT of people are just not interested in dealing with overcrowded stores and parking lots, , disgruntled employees and just human beings in general. So we may pay a bit more, but you can still shop smart. Also a LOT of products cost more in other stores and their online sites than on Amazon. None of the major corporations are clean.
The mani problem is that one American can contribute $10,000,000 to a campaign. Democracy is over, I'm not going to vote this time around, or ever again.
I agree, the US is a pseudo-democracy. At least china is real. You dont get pseudo-communism by them.
That’s right. Democracy is now an illusion, a facade constructed to give a false impression of fairness in the electoral system. But of course nothing could be further from the truth. The system is rigged and bought off by the highest bidders. That’s why voting is absolutely pointless, a mere formality
Amazon will die as a victim of its own success. They cut the margins so thin that they hired an absolute garbage courier services (here in Canada), discouraging repeated business.
It's Amazon what do you expect?!
Small hat company.
Wanna get rich?
ONLY invest in their companies.
Wanna be loved?
Don't BUY from them.
I expect better.
I don't understand why when I buy something on EBay it often comes in an Amazon box.
"but I think donor and expert should be kept -SECRET- separate" nice Freudian slip 😅
Lds church has BILLIONS invested in Amazon
I ordered a phone📱 case from Amazon over a month ago and have yet to receive it😮
I BOYCOTT Amazon 💯 👿
GREED KILLS
He learned from WalMart - dominate the market and put small companies out of business
I always thought the point of business was to make a good life for yourself doing what you love. Instead, it's been twisted into making as much money as possible and crushing everything else.
Amazon companies are not customers. We the people are their customers, not the small businesses that are trying to get us to buy their products
Actually, both are, and both are victims. "ScAmazon Sellers" are not true "channel partners" in a normal business sense.
ΚΑΛΗΣΠΕΡΑ ΑΠΟ ΧΑΝΙΑ ΚΡΗΤΗΣ ΣΑΣ ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΟΥΜΕ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΕΓΚΥΡΗ ΕΝΗΜΕΡΩΣΗ!!ΜΠΡΑΒΩ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΔΟΥΛΕΙΑ ΠΟΥ ΚΑΝΕΤΕ!!!
Is it humid over there?
Surprising anyone at the WSJ has any integrity.
Being competitive is not anti-competitive. They are literally opposites.
I worked in a cube farm back in the late 90s and sat next to the IT guy who was trying to convince me to buy this stock named after a river that sold books online. "I thought online books were going to replace paper books?" I passed. He's probably a millionaire by now. It was 18 a share as I recall I think it's now about ten times that. If you bought 100 shares in 1997 it would be worth over 180,000
"Donor and expert should be kept separate."
I could see that man's nose growing as he said that.
It's impossible to keep them separate to shareholders.
So glad I don't buy from Amazon, but hey, what parts of our lives aren't dependent on monopoly corporations?
That Hoffman is capable of keeping conversations separate does not mean that he does not embody two separate agendas. Being of one body, he may have one goal for himself. Keeping conversations separate could be a matter of appearance and he could also be lying.
Yep, he's tricky, maybe even fooling himself. Execs like him brag to the shareholders about manipulating the market and buying politicians, then lie to the press and say it's all about the consumers.
Tech world's word is worth nothing.
Please use first or last names for ALL candidates. Thanks.
Can we just publicly own Amazon and make it part of the post office and make it public infrastructure
democracy never.
Bezo's also owns the Washington Post...
.... and the book is now available on Amazon!
Libgen, Z-library, and RECAP became human rights projects, just like Brewster's archive.
It's IP law which is corrupt, when tax subsidized research conducted via slave labor (grad students) gets turned over to Elsevier and similar, or Bono & Paraguay harmonization are used to "re-virginate" public domain content for durations of legal fictions, not natural persons (even if that same basis is used to exclude AI-assisted works from protections).
what does it say if I buy this book off Amazon?!?!
Ironic they named their ebook reader Kindle, right?
Amazon follows the most proud proven US cultural tradition to success.
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Capitalism
Lying, cheating, and stealing?
BOT.
Amazon became huge in part because brick-and-mortar retailers ignored customers for too long. They could not ship to your home. They could not transfer in a product for you. Many did not have time for customers. They would tell you to drive to the next store.
Based on the images you provided, we can discuss the concept of monopoly and market concentration:
1. First Image (Consumer Brands Consolidation):
• This image shows the vast number of popular consumer brands controlled by a small number of large corporations. Each of these corporations has significant control over the market in specific sectors (e.g., food, beverages, household products). While this level of concentration does not necessarily constitute a monopoly (which is when a single company dominates the entire market), it does indicate an oligopoly where a few companies have substantial market power.
2. Second Image (Media Consolidation):
• The second image illustrates how media ownership in the United States has consolidated over time. In 1983, 90% of American media was owned by 50 companies, but by 2011, that same percentage was controlled by just six companies. This high level of concentration in media ownership is a sign of oligopoly, where a small number of firms have significant control over the media landscape. This can lead to reduced competition, which is a characteristic of monopolistic behavior, even if these companies are not technically monopolies.
Conclusion:
• Monopoly typically refers to a market where one company dominates, without any significant competitors. In the images you’ve shared, the situation is more of an oligopoly-where a few large companies dominate the market.
• Therefore, while none of the companies shown in these images would technically be considered a monopoly on their own, they do exhibit characteristics of oligopolies, which can have similar effects on market competition and consumer choice as monopolies.
If you want to identify specific companies that might be closer to monopolistic practices within their respective markets, it would involve analyzing each company’s market share, their competition, and the barriers to entry in their industry.
Folks gotta stop using Amazon. Have never used. I buy from small local independent family owned businesses where ever and when ever I can.
Vice President Harris should make sure President Biden's FTC Chair Lena Khan stays EXACTLY where she is, doing EXACTLY what she's doing. The American people deserve nothing less. These conglomerates are stifling innovation and smothering small businesses.
The irony is you can’t buy her book on Amazon!
that's why people are not voting for harris but rather for Jill Stein 🌲
Lina Khan is a superstar! I would be very disappointed if Kamala Harris got rid of her.
dana mattioli is a great garde manger , she tosses a great word salad.
Thank you!
I worked at Amazon spring 2020, and I got a deadly bout of covid there. Have long covid to this day.
So I went to Amazon's home page and I typed in "The Everything War" into the search box. Amazon finds the complete title, but it won't show me the book. I get redirected to books about World War 2.
However, if I do a general search and then click on a link to Amazon, I get to the book. So it doesn't look like a coverup.
Amazon gets into Western Washington outside Seattle tax free, builds and builds. The towns and cities have no funding. But they're always open to more Amazon.
That’s the American way, capitalism go big or go home.
Plus they're bad at payment processing sometimes taking over a week, and bad at delivery if I were to order on 1st of month, everything or part of order would show by the 3rd week of the month and at times the 4th week. Its terrible. Don't shop there.
What's NEVER said is that these Oligarchs are all related to Israelis.
BINGO
Damn really? How you know that?
That is antisemitic bullsh*t. They are plenty awful, and there is a lot wrong with our capitalistic marketplace, but they aren't all Jews...and even if they were, so what.
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If we lose Lina Kamala can kiss my vote goodbye
Absolutely. I am holding my commitment to voting until they make it clear Lina Khan stays.
these global online retailers should be getting 10% MAX..thats including VALVE with STEAM...30% 50% thats completely ludicrous. Also online only software should be flat out illegal.
Doesn't Bezos own the WSJ?
Even as a consumer I’ve noticed weird things with Amazon, such as automatically changed shipping speed, as if there were some algorithm built into their site designed to save money at the micro level through deceptive means. I don’t have the proof but feel certain of it. Maybe it’s in the book!
What are Amazon and the CEOs of this corporation doing and how do big businesses not be under strict standards and who are they working with ?
They're buying our politicians, and that's why they're allowed to manipulate our market.
Does anyone really believe Kamala Harris will treat Amazon any differently than Biden?
Isn't it the judicial and legislatives branches that are more relavent to this?
Jeff Bezos is a leftist
LINA KHAN for POTUS!
The WRATH of Lena Khan!! 🐸💜
Hoffman at 7:22 "I think donor and expert should be secret... I mean separate (OMG I almost revealed my secret position there)"
Take note that the professional opinion is against the majority, the non corporate Americans that are actually held accountable.
Greed is a disease of the mind.
The sad thing is that the right is short term capital interests and left is long term stability of system for capital interests.
The over hiring at Amazon and other tech companies ruined Seattle. A bunch of overpaid people that companies don't need that get paid way more than professions that the city does need. All tech companies should let go of at least 70 percent of their useless staff that make useless $hit that we really don't need
That's how anyone becomes rich.
I guess Bezos doesn't own the WSJ, yet...
Right... how did he not see this coming??? Bozo could hand Amazon over to his employees and live his life with wealth and leasure on his other companies. Will he do that?
Billionaire freudian slips are always epic
What are the customers to do?
Brick-and-mortar stores closed, small business closing up.
Their customers need everything for their kitchen, home. car, garage; their basics clothing. There is no down the street if you are not living in a city, and most residential areas are in bedroom communities or further out in county or small towns to live at more reasonable prices and safety from urban crime.
This is why Amazon is winning, recently however free Returns are required to be at a UPS or FedEx store. Things like this indicate Amazon is in trouble again.
I cancel anything that does not provide a tracking number, or meet the delivery date (a day or two is understandable).
It seems nothing ever happens to Walmart or Amazon.
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Just go to whole foods and see how they watch you like in a Casino.