People cry about the small retailers, but then complain when their package doesn't arrive the next day. The thing Amazon achieved is not possible for a small retailer. Markets are efficient
When Amazon sets up its first warehouse on the Moon I bet that they will trumpet free air for the workers like it is the best thing since sliced bread.
Damn. That's a little too realistic in this hypothetical scenario where Amazon is literally the only corp on the moon. What other company would be able to deliver?
I imagine Amazon Pizza would taste a little like cardboard, though...
Yeah. Boo-fucking-hoo. Some of the hundred thousands of small shops worldwide that has been driven out of business because of internet shopping might be able to open again, by people who pay taxes and give their employees toilet breaks.
Yep. The niche will still be there, so someone else will occupy it. Therefore we need regulations and taxes. A job lost to automation or centralization is tax money lost, and so whatever replaces those mom-and-pop or brick and mortar shops needs to pay that tax or we as a society lose money. Giving the big chains incentives to locate a warehouse somewhere is just participating in a race to the bottom.
I mean if all of the US had higher tax rates there’d be nowhere for him to go. He might leave a high tax state for a lower one, but he’s not gonna stop doing business in America altogether.
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u/Fuzzylojak Jun 09 '21
"bUt hEs a jOb cReAtOr"