Why are we letting this monopoly silently destroy our local economies?
Invest in Amazon stock? Yes! Let's feed a corporation tons of money, enable them to destroy every business/job in our town, and crush any possibility of owning our own assets and creating generational wealth for our own families.
Walmart is cancer too. They are literally a wholesaling warehouse that sells directly to consumers instead of retailers. This should not be legal.
Amazon IS a monopoly and the only reason the public is so unaware is because Amazon in not visibly present. people see dozens of local stores closing, but can't see the cause of it with their own eyes. Imagine if every store in your area was rebranded as Amazon:Supermarket, Amazon:Electronics, Amazon:Bike shop, etc. There would be no doubt in Amazon being a monopoly and the people would be outraged. But, the fact that Amazon hides out of pain view in warehouses and is based online makes it hard to see the cause of the problem.
Before Amazon/Big box stores a small business owner (retail) could generate a personal income of $70K-Millions and hire 2-30+ employees, and purchase goods at wholesale from warehouses that also employed workers and had private owners. Now, most of that has been replaced by fewer and fewer $12/hr warehouse slaves.
A life of consumption. Depression. Isolation. Obesity. Atrophy. Hell on earth. Welcome to Idiocracy.
Trump on (((Bezos)))- "He thinks I'll go after him for antitrust," Trump said at the time. "Because he's got a huge antitrust problem because he's controlling so much, Amazon is controlling so much of what they are doing.
"He's using the Washington Post, which is peanuts, he's using that for political purposes to save Amazon in terms of taxes and in terms of antitrust."
Trump’s campaign later reiterated this narrative in a statement claiming that the Post was being used as political leverage so Amazon doesn’t “get sued for monopolistic tendencies that have led to the destruction of department stores and the retail industry.”
Daniel Ross
Bump for freedom's sake
Owen Ross
>amazon is a monopoly >almost everything they sell can be found elsewhere online often cheaper
Ok then
Colton Collins
How is it a monopoly? Nobody is forcing you to buy it through amazon. If they can provide it at the lowest price, they've invested enough in the logistics chain to get it to you for the cheapest amount. If you can get it cheaper elsewhere, go buy it elsewhere Same with Walmart
Luke Bell
This.
Why not open your own store and sell your shit cheaper op.
Easton Gray
OP is a jealous faggot,they do not have a monopoly they just sell their goods for cheaper.
Also they pay their employees better than retail cucks get paid. It is great pay? No
Still they pay better than the physical store retail cucks
Andrew Rivera
Not a monopoly
Seems legit
Cameron Watson
>buy several articles from a bunch of different sites >pay shipping for every single one of them >they arrive individually, on different dates, at different times
vs
>order all from same site >no shipping >everything arrives at the same time
Ian Nguyen
>Why don't you build your own rocket and fly to Mars OP?"
You really think that's achievable for the average US citizen in this economy?
Mason Morris
i mean i like amazon but op is right and only people who still have jobs or an income left will post itt and say its fine and everything is ok with it when its not
u need to tax and redistribute to the people without jobs or have them employed through goverment programz or some shit
at some point it just doesnt work and theres not enough jobs for people
Caleb Diaz
CIA
Isaiah Myers
If only there were other online stores where you could buy things for the same price or cheaper...
Sebastian Rodriguez
Still not a monopoly.
You could apply that same logic to a grocery store vs produce store/butcher shop/general store/pharmacy.
Benjamin Roberts
They will spoil themselves with cheap Amazon goods, feeding the beast that will ultimately consume them.
Easton Ward
>comparing a few websites to literally hundreds of thousands of small businesses by every man at the turn of the 19th century
it will never be the same we are all destined to be slaves at this point
Brayden Carter
It's more efficient than local stores and is a boon for our economy. I also dare anyone to show that it's had a negative impact on jobs in the US. How many jobs were there before Amazon showed up, and how many are there now?
Easton James
I think I misinterpreted you post.
Austin Fisher
You know it's bad when people have no understanding of businesses that aren't monopolistic conglomerates.
Brody Jenkins
>it helps the economy even though it shuts down stores
confirmed not in reality
if all the money is going to a few big corporations it doesnt exactly help the population
if might be more efficient IF YOU STILL HAVE AN INCOME THEN OF COURSE YOU DONT GIVE A SHIT JUST GIVE ME MY INSTANT ORDERS t. fuck everyone else
John Williams
Do you weep for all the candle-makers who lost their jobs to light bulbs?
Aaron Clark
Can confirm. My wife won't shop at walmart but is on amazon every fucking day.
It's the amazon video that lull the women.
Bentley Reyes
its not going to work like that this time
theres not another wave of jobs coming
right now its just going to phase out people
Dylan Bailey
Like I said, can you prove that the number of American jobs has trended downward since Amazon showed up? lolno of course not, there are literally 6 million unfulfilled positions in the US right now. You doomsayers literally never learn, human desire is infinite. It will take a lot more than an efficient online marketplace to permanently phase out our economy.
Oliver Cruz
Comrade Trump is jealous of the richest capitalist alive.
Zachary Morgan
Staples is getting crushed by Amazon. They closing stores as we speak. Are we supposed to wait until there is absolutely no other stores left to buy from before we finally declare them a monopoly?
Adrian Morris
our economy is already dead you fucking moron
we have walmarts and we have mcdonalds and everyone is a slave
you people have no perception of whats actually going on
youre blinded because you still taste bits of the remains of what a real economy was
Samuel Gomez
>he says with not a single number to back him up I see new businesses open up in my town literally every day.
Levi Harris
"U.S. retail sales of candles are estimated at approximately $2 billion annually, excluding sales of candle accessories. Candles are used in 7 out of 10 U.S. households."
Nice analogy, brainlet.
Cooper Bennett
oh ya how are they going to beat amazon
because theres chains with hundreds of millions of dollars that are shutting down right now who couldnt figure it out
what are they going to sell underwater basket weaving utensils from india
Jackson Foster
Buy n Large anyone?
Sebastian Gray
Wow, it's almost like efficiency doesn't always eradicate a livelihood entirely. I wonder if there are still physical book shops, grocery stores, and used goods stores, even though Amazon and Ebay exist
Michael Parker
because congress doesn't have the balls to do anything about it
Brayden Flores
>Before Amazon/Big box stores a small business owner (retail) could generate a personal income of $70K-Millions and hire 2-30+ employees,
retail is a joke of a "business", a middleman got cut out, who woulda thot.
William King
/thread
Aiden Nguyen
By specializing in something that the local populace wants, and being more service oriented than goods oriented. More businesses open up than close every year. Please stop being stupid.
Jose Robinson
doesnt matter which company it is, it's the same usps guy that delivers undies to my apartment.
Anthony Brooks
Great post OP, shared to kikebook
Jaxson Carter
What we really need is the government to control everything I buy and how I spend my money.
Am I doing it right?.
Jace Miller
Good. Let them all fucking die. In my country the retailers gouge consumers so fucking hard. You know retailers are fucking you without lube when it's cheaper to buy an item online, ship it to your country and pay the import tax and custom duties. Local shops put a 500% markup on shit they sell then they go crying on national TV when they have shit sales for christmas. They got so fucking desperate they tried to get the government to ban online shopping but the public backlash was so fucking hard they canceled the ban. Instead the government added a small "online tax" and were blown away at how much money they earned in a month. Far more than looking after retailers and collecting their share. Fuck small businesses. They can rot.
David Smith
Reminder that you can't be a national socialist and support stores like Amazon
>16. We demand the creation and maintenance of a healthy middle class, the immediate communalizing of big department stores, and their lease at a cheap rate to small traders, and that the utmost consideration shall be shown to all small traders in the placing of State and municiple orders.
Dominic Anderson
Our economy is propped up by a mountain of debt. The people own nothing. They don't own the car they drive, the house they live in, or even the clothes on their back in many cases. We are all pretending everything is ok, until the debt collector comes. Without our free money we are less than a third world country. Wait until they come, we will all either become enslaved or completely wiped off the planet.
Parker Ward
Amazons profits are FUCKED. Holding shares in them is the most pure form of gambling in existence.
William Davis
OK, bro. I guess in ten years we'll see who's right. Doomsayers, who have literally always been wrong, or realists who can see that efficiency is good for an economy.
Leo Davis
Well, you do make a good point... but they sell so much good shit conveniently in one location. It's hard not to want to buy from Amazon.
Cooper Robinson
seeamerica already dead
Nathan Peterson
Debt doesn't invalidate the amount of real tangible wealth our country has and produces every day. I would rather be an American in the bottom 10% today, than John D. Rockefeller in his own time.
Thomas Peterson
>I hate competition Come up with a better idea without your emotions and muh morality being involved
Andrew Torres
>Implying that Wholefoods(Amazon) wont wipe out every other grocery store.
Aiden Young
Your leftypol is showing.
Charles Taylor
>local business that has access to local resources cannot offer me a service that is either a) cheaper, b) better or c) quicker sounds more like shitty local mom & pop joints need a reality check on the principles of free market competition
Joshua Torres
Learn to draw porn and draw it well. You will make endless amounts of money. If you really want to make bank with fewer work pieces draw furry porn and draw it well. My sister draws furry porn and makes 6 grand a month, I'm talking USD here. She had an auction where she auctioned off spots in a pic. Was a furry gangbang orgy. Each spot went for over a grand and there were 8 spots. People couldn't alter anything in the image. They just sent a reference pic of their self insert fursona and that was it. I called her a whore for doing shit like this and she said she rather be an art whore than taking black dick for a living. That was how I discovered my sister was redpilled.
Angel Garcia
>I would rather be an American in the bottom 10% today, than John D. Rockefeller in his own time.
i wouldnt
id rather be a king 5000 years ago then the life i got now
>the amount of real tangible wealth our country has and produces every day
which is none because it was all shipped overseas
you actual imbecile
if everyone is in debt thats the definition of not having wealth
Joshua Phillips
free market
Caleb Martinez
Shut it down then. You cannot win by regular means anymore, they will just pay off the politicians...
Caleb Wright
No, the middle man is still there. We just let one man turn all the other ones into his nu-slaves.
Tyler Hughes
This desu senpai. I was in Albania last summer and I bought a TV for my grandma in the local equivalent of Best Buy and they're literally charging 2x the price of a shitty 32" TV
Colton Reed
>Fuck small businesses. They can rot.
where are you going to work retard
Carter Flores
Online shopping is fine but I hope Amazon gets broken up purely because Bezos is a huge jackass
Hudson Moore
just for giggles, remove the pirate flag
Brandon Green
They already do. Welcome to 2017, Crony Capitalism is our way of life now.
Genius idea really. Government using corporations to control every aspect of our lives. How much we get paid, what we eat, what we watch, our culture, our choices. Very easy to control everyone once all of the power is so concentrated.
Gabriel Miller
I remember when Amazon used to sell books.
Elijah Gray
Pornhub also has a lot of good shit conveniently in one location. It's hard not to want to simulate sexual intercourse from Pornhub. However, does this mean it should completely replace the need for women? Is the use of pornhub overall damaging in the long-term and detrimental to society?
Oliver Williams
How can you compete with a company that breaks every fucking law in the book and gets away with it?
Blake Watson
Yes.
Ayden Robinson
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Thomas Gonzalez
its not about competing sometime you need to throw the towel in and say you know what they beat me
but this sucks and we cant sustain 2 people owning everything
Liam Wilson
>tfw I sold Amazon years ago and bought Bitcoin
Colton Jones
>They are literally a wholesaling warehouse that sells directly to consumers instead of retailers. This should not be legal. Get fucked commie
Andrew Lopez
The us government is purposely trying to create these huge monopolies that they can integrate into a centrally controlled economy. US government also created cryptocurrency with google for this purpose.
Christian Lewis
>Get fucked commie
where ya gonna work.
im waiting.
Jace Cox
Thanks for this thread, we must go after the Silicon Valley monopolies like this. He is literally going to be the richest man on earth, but he must be stopped. If you notice, he also outsources to make cheap shitty Chinese products to undercut any made in US products, which he can then sell through his monoplous empire. This is important, the Dems/Left view technology and their technocratic elites as saviors, but the new Right must take them on. We will be the righteous men, fighting the the new Tycoons and Barons! We can consolidate Blue Collar support with a populist approach. We just have to breach this subject to New or Trump Republicans. The old cucks are owned by Big Money already sold out!
What is your plan user, you seem to have a grasp on this issue?
Landon Cruz
Think about the social implications user! This doesn't just hamper local stores, but other smaller online businesses as well! Why do you invest your labor and time in defending a rich and disruptive industry that does not care about your well being. Bezos owns the Washington Post, he is actively working against Donald Trump and by extension the American people!
Camden Reyes
Lol, look guys, all the local stores are out of businesses, but now some people have jobs at the amazon warehouse that's in my state capital! Oh just ignore all that money that is being sucked right out of the local economy, no probelm there!
Henry Johnson
Nope, my local bookstore shut down, so fuck off you libertardian brainlet nigger. I'm sick of these NAP faggots saying that it doesn't matter if these Tycoons destroy the fabric of society, so long as they provide cheap service.
Easton Thompson
YEAH FCK YOU DAD!
Ethan Wilson
>oy vey how dare these corporations cut out the middleman! >muh idiocracy
how do you stop a company from becoming a monopoly ? i mean if the customers like so much that company , what the hell can you do ?
Caleb Butler
deliver food and sex toys to my door
I don't care faggot
Thomas Garcia
Big box died out because they couldn't innovate. Get rekt faggot. Go watch dead malls series and maybe learn why big boxes and malls failed.
Bentley Lee
>buy chinkshit from chink site >it never arrives >contact them an they do nothing
or
>buy non chinkshit from American site >it never arrives >contact them and they immediately ship it next day no questions
Jaxson Ortiz
READ TED KACZYNSKI YOU BLUE PILLED TECHNOSLAVES
Charles Bailey
>sells directly to consumers instead of retailers. >This should not be legal.
>OP wants to mandate inefficiency because he thinks Bezos et al. are taking money in a zero sum fashion
Dude just shut the fuck up and get a 75k/year programming job or something. If you live in Cincinnati I'll even put a word in a Paycor--they always need programmers.
Cooper Rodriguez
> a store selling thousands of brands and products it doesn't even own and allows for small businesses to sell their products to reach greater markets
> called a monopoly
Nolan Parker
Basically.
I have Prime and often pay more than I would elsewhere for the free fast shipping and convenience.
I'd hardly call Amazon a monopoly. They have a significant amount of market share in e-commerce, but there are PLENTY of competitors out there too.
Julian Martin
You are right about Silicon Valley, they are also a cancer to the economy. Their business models are so backwards and destructive in their nature. They are only able to survive through constant funding from investors and rarely break a true profit. It seems that often times the only way they can make money is through the destruction of industries, elimination of jobs, or implementation of technology used to systematically cut wages take power from employees. They constantly acquire and merge with competition and even 3rd party service providers, effectively syphoning power into less and less hands. 1 company can acquire 10 other smaller companies, replace their CEOs and with glorified managers and cut wages. It will be near impossible for employees to negotiate higher salaries because nobody in their building will even have the authority to make those changes.
As for my plan... I think redistribution of wealth is a terrible solution. Like I said, I think warehouses like Walmart, costco, etc. should not be allowed to sell directly to consumers. Acquisitions should be significantly limited and controlled by the state to encourage healthy competition and distribution of power. Conglomerates and corporations should be broken up and rent for retail made affordable for new entrants. Personally, I have my own small business in the print industry and I plan on growing it as much as I can in these turbulent times. That is how I plan to do my part.
Xavier Moore
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Liam James
I hate to say it but I love Amazon. I hate going from store to store trying to find what I need, only to find out they don't carry it. Some shit is not even sold here in Canada.
Andrew Torres
I stopped buying shit off Amazon cause its bad for economy and bad for you
Nicholas Ortiz
>Lives by a book written by some retarded /k/ommando living in a shack in the woods sending bombs to people cause he's a dick
Noah White
fuck your economy.
the fact is society doesn't give a shit about your inconvenient, half-assed "customer service"
america is saturated from its own consumer-celebrity culture of plastic people...
this is what happens when you oppress the rest of humanity, they eventually get stronger.
Lincoln Robinson
I agree we need to stop Walmart and other warehouses as you call them. They are ugly and demoralize local communities as it dehumanizes everyone involved, the employees and the costumers. Do the Waltons shop at Walmart? Silicon Velley "innovates" by using technology (or technique if you've read The Technological Society) to increase efficiency at the expense of all the humans involved. Read Jacques Ellul, he is a premier authority on this development. Good luck with your business user, might I ask what you print? Books or different types of printables such as art or posters?
Lucas Campbell
Amazon has a no-tax monopoly. Through some form of collusion, there is a gentleman's agreement among a number of institutional holders of its stock to never require that profit be shown, in order to avoid paying any taxes. Bezos was literally the richest man in the world moments ago, and his main company never pays taxes. On its face that is evidence of wrongdoing. He isn't putting anything back, he's just a taker. It's completely unethical and it must come to an end.
Christopher Thompson
>Why not open your own store and sell your shit cheaper op.
Amazon is cutting into his ebay fiddlefuck sales
David Evans
Its called get rich or die tryin' bitchnigga. Sup Forums goes off on how great capitalism is but as soon as someone gets filthy rich off it Sup Forums whines. Your either gonna keep up with the capitalist game and dollar god or get left behind. Its what Sup Forums wants right?
Luke Wright
nobody fucking competes. get me free returns on any opened merchandise with free 2 day shipping and we'll talk.
Jaxon Ortiz
Create a distribution system based on many independent vendors that is somehow more efficient than Amazon
Or keep whining faggot
Logan Sanders
>Are we supposed to wait until there is absolutely no other stores left to buy from before we finally declare them a monopoly?
