>>6495362

Just saying… Amazon had that interesting policy of taking some cheap, popular product from China and rolling it into their Basics line that did have better QC compared to "we ship America fast!" - but was priced just under what other markets could provide it at.

It would be kind of entertaining if courts were to decide that the Amazon basics line constitutes a monopoly and that consumers are to be paid the difference between the Amazon Basic variety and the $2 Chinese one.

Or… Let's flip the logic around. If I am buying a product on your platform, the seller is also buying, via the fee, access to the platform. If you, as Amazon, also have a product line on your own platform….. Then the Amazon Basics line represents extremely anti-competitive behavior and a monopoly.

I don't know where Apple's case goes, but I would divest from Amazon if I were a broker. Like now, before people connect the dots.

>>6495493

I think a lot of people have been born into a system that they learned to survive in. The good always out number the bad…. Even among enemy ranks.

I am with you, though, in that I do not know if she is "good" or "bad." I am open to the idea she is cooperating for a way to get off the crazy train - but I have no real evidence on it either way.

I am also something of an optimist, these days. I prefer to entertain the scenario where people were in over their heads and living moment to moment and this is something of an intervention on behalf of many of them.

Some of them may deserve jail time or some means of penalty. But if they can be salvaged, I would prefer that scenario. I like to think it was just a few really bad people in key locations making a mess of things for the rest. But that is what courts and the plan are all for - sorting out who is whom and what they did/did not do.