[SerpentJoe]

Whatever economic system may be in place, it will be possible to profit by making better decisions in that context, but that doesn't prove the superiority of that system, and it doesn't make it "terrifying" to wonder whether this or that emergent phenomenon is a feature or a bug.

[mjfl]

The terrifying part is someone with a completely un-nuanced understanding of Jeff Bezo's wealth going around saying "Hey! This man committed violence against me! He committed violence against you too!" when the violence was selling them an Amazon echo at a cheap price, or just being richer than them. What happens when they reach a consensus that Bezos committed violence against them? History tells me very clearly (see Russia, China, LatAm, Germany).

[visarga]

> when the violence was selling them an Amazon echo at a cheap price

How about when the violence was selling under the normal market value undermining competition, then remaining the only vendor. Also replacing employees with robots.

So in the end, people who would have had a job lost it, no matter if they work directly for Amazon or for the competition.

It's not violence to take people's jobs, but in a society with few social protections, it's as bad as violence.

[iamnotlarry]

Selling under normal market value is not an act of violence.

Using robots instead of human employees is not an act of violence.

You have a very strange world view. Are your clothes hand-stitched? Was the electronic device you used for your post painstakingly constructed by hand? Do you think it is fair for some things to be automated but not others?

Perhaps you think that it was bad to selectively cultivate a variety of wheat that could yield more tons of food per acre? Or maybe you think it is just wrong for a farmer to use a tractor? Should they water a hundred acre field by hand with 1 gallon buckets? That would mean more jobs!

What is your opinion of all these auto-mechanics who have displaced stable hands? Should cities use thousands of laborers to spin manual generators to feed individual street lights? Modern power plants are taking peoples' jobs.

[2muchcoffeeman]

There's a very strange phenomena going on where are starting to equate non-violent things with violence. Even words are violence.

I have witnessed a friend being physically attacked and have seen the aftermath of an physical attack.

From this perspective, I can only conclude that these people equating things to violence are simply attempting to gain political power, or virtue signal or whatever.