RE: Six Things We Can Learn About US Plutocracy By Looking At Jeff Bezos

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Six Things We Can Learn About US Plutocracy By Looking At Jeff Bezos

in government •  7 years ago 

I remember when Bezos and Amazon were coming up. We thought of them like Earth Shoes and the Whole Earth Catalog. Hippie start-ups. And then when he got bigger, what was noticeable was his debt. His firm never made any money, cried poor, but somehow kept being capitalized because of its potential.

Now it’s easy to see that allowing such e-commerce without State and Sales Taxation did immeasurable harm to bricks and mortar stores, and to community development. Additionally, we’d be much better served by a variety of smaller, linked e-commerce retailers, whose internet sales operations corresponded with a physical store. Amazon’s huge warehouses are nightmare employment scenarios, and having one person in charge of such retailing largess is an invitation for despotism (as Ralph Nader explains here).

Trump threatened to tax Amazon. There exists the hope that as we stop shopping there, and purchase instead through other networked e-commerce sites, sufficient legislation may one day come along to couple with the boycott and reduce Amazon’s outsized influence.

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You present a sensible and likely narrative. However I can't share your optimism... and progressive outlook... at least not today.. but I can tell you a fable:

A man was tied up naked onto a tree by pond, by a village mob because he stole from his neighbour.
It was evening and a passerby notice the pain the thief was suffering from the swarm of mosquitoes feeding on him. As none was there to stop him, he took pity on the thief and start waving his coat, around to disperse the pestering cloud. At this the thief cried with despair:

Have mercy, kind man, these ones are full, the next ones that will gather will not have had their meal.

Amazon is untaxed? For Creep's sake. And requiring tax subsidies for locating offices in a city. The real business of oligarchs is securing public funds.