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lenerdenatorlast Monday at 4:14 PM1 replyview on HN

Not to speak for the other poster but I didn't see any implication of a central benevolent dictator in their comment.


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overrun11last Monday at 4:43 PM

It's implicit. Amazon has billions of dollars because customers freely handed over the money. We know they found the service valuable because they wouldn't have done so otherwise.

The poster is suggesting there is some _true_ value separate from what these customers who know their own situations best think. That they are secretly being fleeced and a central planner will somehow better allocate the resources.

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