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I mean, you can spin it the way the author does. But those maximised supply chains are also really good at killing small business, and historically, small business has been a lot more important to free western societies than major companies with perfect supply chains.

So you could also spin it as corporate slavery for all the people living paycheck to paycheck that are unable to ever break that cycle because it’s impossible to build something that would compete with Amazon.

You can really spin the Amazon story whichever way you want. Over all, monopolies tend to be a net negative for society though.