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Specifically it is a critique of our implementation of capitalism. In a picture book version of capitalism everyone has perfect information and consumers wouldn't buy a product that lasts 35 days (unless they truly only need it that short, and resale isn't viable). In an ideal version of Amazon the product reviews would inform you of the quickly failing products. But we don't live in a picture book version of capitalism and don't have an ideal version of Amazon, so we are stuck with companies exploiting information asymmetry to their own gain (an information asymmetry they are creating themselves through review manipulation, no less)