[asim]

Side note: Is it me or has Amazon been announcing a lot of things lately? I think the fact that Amazon is beginning to rule the fabric of the world and is controlled by the richest man in the world makes me slightly uneasy. I can't really place it right now but something tells me a decade from now this is going to be a big problem and they were just left unchecked to proliferate throughout the world until we became entirely dependent on them. Dictators and surveillance states often start in very non-obvious ways and most tend to not even see the issue when the exist within it. If the world is consumed by Amazon, what then?

[dannyw]

Hedge against that by buying their shares. Sometimes I think the big caps are just call options on future corpo-governments.

[turing_complete]

Yeah, imagine if they were to improve our life even more!

[asim]

And this is the unfortunate dichotomy. We are thankful to our abusers. We often don't even understand how they are using us for their own benefits but we are grateful to them. Something is awry but because we are reaping the benefits now we're blind to it.

[turing_complete]

It is not abusing, it is trading. The world is not zero-sum.

[jaywalk]

And that attitude is exactly why it's scary.