Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Amazon's financial shell game let it create an "impossible" monopoly I *love* this ...
Amazon's financial shell game let it create an "impossible" monopoly
I *love* this one. First of all, Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjurer' is a *great* visual representation of a slickster pulling a fast one on gawping yokels. But once I added Doc Searls' great shot of Jeff Bezos in mid-crazy-laugh to it (from a 2010 Techonomy Summit) it became perfectly trenchant.
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