Anything avant-garde about Amazon.com was lost the day they made their IPO. This corporation is there to make money, and I'd say that this move shows that they intend to do so in as great of sum as is conceivable.
I don't think that idealistic views of the internet are intirely misplaced. It's beauty is in the forum of information, of knowledge, not commerce. But I will say that any idealism about the motives or ethos of a $multi-billion corporation are misplaced. Any idealism about Amazon should have been rightly placed in the hands of the people behind it; Amazon was lost they day they decided to answer to the market instead of themselves.
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Anything avant-garde about Amazon.com was lost the day they made their IPO. This corporation is there to make money, and I'd say that this move shows that they intend to do so in as great of sum as is conceivable.
I don't think that idealistic views of the internet are intirely misplaced. It's beauty is in the forum of information, of knowledge, not commerce. But I will say that any idealism about the motives or ethos of a $multi-billion corporation are misplaced. Any idealism about Amazon should have been rightly placed in the hands of the people behind it; Amazon was lost they day they decided to answer to the market instead of themselves.