Monday, April 3, 2017
Amazon is a Destroyer of Jobs and the Merchant Economy If this is progress, just how much more can our economy afford? The myth of cheap prices, conveniently
seldom factors in the structural costs to society. Building an all inclusive monopoly based upon minimal employees and predatory
prices ignores the long anti-trust history that helped create the middle class. The last fifty years has demonstrated the
systemic retreat from family prosperity, which has produced a vast disproportionate of wealth among the fewer haves and the
growing have-nots. The enormous accumulation of market share that Amazon has steamrolled under the hypnosis of ease in selection
of products, placing orders, timely deliveries, and most of all; cheapest pricing has caused the demise of much of traditional
retail commerce.
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