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Why Amazon Wants To Pay Sales Tax
Maximum Prophet writes "A while ago, Amazon caved on paying individual states sales taxes. Now we know why. Amazon is setting up same-day delivery warehouses everywhere. They will put most normal retailers out of business." If that's a bet, I'll take it.
>> Whats left for 300 million people to do?
Buy stuff? Online?
Amazon may be addressing that using some of that newfangled "data mining" that all the young kids who won't stay off my lawn are talking about these days.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." Feynman
Perhaps what we need is for people to get back in the business of producing.
Agree.
Unlike many businesses, our family actually does the work. We farm. We turn sunlight into food.
Most businesses just take the sunlight itself and blow it you-know-where.
We already see the situation in electronics, where people go to a local shop, check out what they need and then... order from amazon. This will happen to groceries eventually as well. And that will kill your choice of products, your ability to choose where to spend your money and eventually your ability to actually visit a local store.
kill choice? like the internet killed choice in electronics? and books? and pornography?
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
>> Whats left for 300 million people to do?
Buy stuff? Online?
With what?
Credit
I make a reasonable middle-class wage by going to work and not spamming blogs with scams.