In defense of Amazon

[JCanete]

7. Yes of course it has. That's not a defense of Amazon. Amazon offers a great service, and they can do

it at a much lower price than other people can given their size and power. They take a huge chunk of revenue from the companies that advertise through them, the same as Walmart, etc. and it is at a rate close to extortion. You have to use these services to survive as a company but you can't use these services and survive necessarily.

BUT it does keep costs low, which is why Amazon offers such an amazing selection of products, GREAT shipping, and a whole pay tv package to boot.

I don't even get why you're saying you trust Amazon to do the right thing. What does that even mean? What is that trust based upon? They are a corporation that doesn't pay their employees very well, and they've displaced a lot of the industry. Granted, the big box stores were awful too, but that doesn't mean that this shit shouldn't be regulated.

BUT that doesn't mean that we have to take Trumps words as genuine or his solutions as anything but self-serving. Its just that the enemy of your enemy does not have to be your friend. I hate that we do that with corporate media just because Trump was able to effectively make them the "liberal" villain when nothing could be further from the truth. Us flocking to it as a response to that is just tragic to me.

I'm glad you like WaPo and as papers go it could be a crap load worse, but there is something to be said that is problematic about big influential industries having their own propaganda wing. I assure you that it affects coverage of their company. How would it not? How indepentent is anything anymore?