Amazon is a predator, motivated to destroy serviceable assets, business operations, jobs. When it's finally captured, the damage will have irrevocably been done, leaving behind the Labria tarpits of retail carcasses.

You got a product a little cheaper and free shipping...

Amazon, Hmm...
Amazon is eliminating competition, taking control of one industry after another, leaving us fragile, less diverse and innovative, and fewer opportunities for businesses to start and grow

Amazon has left retailers/manufacturers with no choice but to become 3rd party sellers, supplanting an open market with on that is exclusively Amazon..and giving themselves power to dictate terms by which its competitors can operate, and to levy a kind of tax on their revenue.

As it extracts more fees from them, it’s hollowing out their companies and reducing their ability to invent and develop new products.

Amazon has eliminated +/- 200k more jobs in retail than it has created in its warehouses, and that pace is accelerating.
Retail store workers are about 1 in every 8 jobs, and unlike Amazon jobs, these jobs are distributed across virtually every town and neighborhood

Amazon is spreading its low-wage, precarious labor model to package delivery, threatening the jobs of nearly one million unionized, middle-income workers at UPS and the U.S. Postal Service.

Amazon is upending the longstanding relationship between commerce and place, changing the way that our communities feel and threatening the revenue streams and social capital that they depend on to function

Property taxes are leading source of revenue for state/local gov, and brick-and mortar retailers shoulder a large share of this tax responsibility. As it displaces then, Amazon = has no property in 20 states ....is not replacing this critical source of revenue

Amazon’s invisibility and lack of a physical presence in most places makes it hard to build a grassroots response to its impacts.
One day I will write the "great american thread" about Amazon HQ2, an attempted coup in Long Island City, papered with colonialist propaganda
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