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In reply to the discussion: Why Jeff Bezos’ Amazon Is More Evil Than Walmart and McDonald’s [View all]Bad Granny
(28 posts)ignored or glossed over. Its system is typical of the oppressive and exploitative business practices that have become SOP for most larger companies.
My daughter works as an editor for a small, but great publisher in NYC. She has educated me on the destructive consequences that Amazon and its approach is having on the creation of literature itself.
If things regress along the lines they are currently moving, you will soon not be able to find any small, specialized publishers as the monsters will have forced everyone else out of the field.
Then, only "corporately approved" writing will be published .
Then, the public will be limited in its access to literature.
As designed.
And we put up with this, simply to save a couple of bucks on a book. The middle and working classes have been squeezed so much that many are "forced" to cut corners and look for any savings, even pennies or a "couple of bucks" in order to merely survive.
As designed.
When you have nothing to read except corporately-approved pablum that only gives messages with a certain perspective, you can blame your patronage of Amazon and the other exploiters of capitalism that are getting richer off of your "thrift."