<div dir="auto">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. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 2:38 PM Marcus Daniels <<a href="mailto:marcus@snoutfarm.com">marcus@snoutfarm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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?</div>
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<div id="m_-2855221840925121632divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Friam <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>> on behalf of <a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" target="_blank">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" target="_blank">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 2, 2022 12:03 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam@redfish.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [FRIAM] Roger Mcnamee !!??</font>
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<p>I just listened to this podcast </p>
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<p><a href="https://feeds.megaphone.fm/VMP5489734702" target="_blank">https://feeds.megaphone.fm/VMP5489734702</a></p>
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<p>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,
<i>Zucked</i>.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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?</p>
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<p>As usual, I am in need of instruction. </p>
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<p>Nick Thompson</p>
<p><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com" target="_blank">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</a></p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/" target="_blank">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</a></p>
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