[FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??

[Gary Schiltz]

While I’m not particularly a big fan of Bezos the cowboy billionaire, I do
like Amazon the marketplace. Lots of small and large retailers offering
goods from all over the world (okay, China) with buyers’ ability to comment
on and rate the products. With a behemoth at least sort of standing behind
those products on behalf of the buyers. The closest thing we have down here
in the wild west of the third world is Mercado Libre, but that’s not even
close to Amazon Marketplace.

On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 2:38 PM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:

> I can see living without Facebook (I do), but why can't we live with
> Amazon?   It seems like they did a pretty good job of displacing the likes
> of Walmart.  It could happen again.  What added inherent value do stores
> have, other than as a mechanism to prevent he consolidation of market
> influence w.r.t. to prices?
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of
> thompnickson2 at gmail.com <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, January 2, 2022 12:03 PM
> *To:* 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <
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> *Subject:* [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??
>
>
> I just listened to this podcast
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>
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> https://feeds.megaphone.fm/VMP5489734702
>
>
>
> a conversation between the former prosecutor, Joyce Vance, and the
> musician, financier, turncoat Facebook investor Roger Mcnamee, who likens
> this moment with big tech to the moment before the food industry
> regulations of the early 1900’s and anti-pollution legislation of the 60’s,
> moments when Da People reasserted control over over-weening industry
> interests.  He is author of the book, *Zucked*.
>
>
>
> An hour-long pod cast is a terribly inefficient way to learn about
> something, so I hope that one you, for whom none of this is news, can offer
> a more condensed source.
>
>
>
> We are basically talking about the Amazon paradox, here: can’t live with
> it; can’t live without it.  How much ARE we willing to pay to have the
> trains run on time?
>
>
>
> As usual, I am in need of instruction.
>
>
>
> Nick Thompson
>
> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
>
> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>
>
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