alt Hacker NewsAfter Amazon has been a great friend to the Trump administration, by partnering with Flock, by funding the Melania documentary to basically bribe Trump, etc - why should Americans or others trust them or give them business? Amazon isn’t that interesting anymore. You can buy most things directly from a trusted manufacturer or other websites. I don’t see them doing anything innovative at all. What’s the last useful thing they did - AWS? And that stopped being novel more than 10 years ago.
The problem is, megacorp with infinite capital get to make these massive mistakes and stumble through failure after failure, when everyday entrepreneurs get crushed for the tiniest problem.
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You can count the number of times Jassy has lead amazon to an innovative new product during his tenure as CEO on zero hands.
“Why should Americans trust them”, I’d go further and say you shouldn’t trust any company.
Personally, I just buy stuff from a store and return it if I don’t like it. I don’t need to trust the store because the US has good enough consumer laws. It’s a store not my wife. I don’t need to have these ethical dilemmas over getting Coke Zero delivered.
> You can buy most things directly from a trusted manufacturer or other websites.
My experience over the last year has been the opposite. More and more of the specialized bits and pieces I need or want are only sold online via Amazon.
Extremely depressing.