James Gleick on Nostr: “Amazon has become a vestigial place, a retail colossus barely hindered by either ...

“Amazon has become a vestigial place, a retail colossus barely hindered by either competition or regulation, where prices go up as quality goes down, and the undifferentiated slurry of products from obscure brands is wreathed in inauthentic reviews.”

Time for a reckoning with Amazon. npub1hykucplphuhelaxutcw4jw3vuu7gcg42czhqmk7jhchs8vdga4fsj73p33 (npub1hyk…3p33) in the NY Times is thorough and correct.

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