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Rage1-Nov-20 21:07
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Like most people lately (I suspect) I've been using Amazon and FleaBay more than usual

On a side note, this is actually killing our local economy (Not that you specifically bought a few things online, but that everybody does). During the lockdown in France, most people will order on amazon for the same reasons, so all small local stores selling toys or presents will go bankrupt - if the lockdown cycles go on, amazon will be the only company alive in a couple of years.

They are already regulating who can sell and what can be sold online : no store on amazon and you have no visibility on the Internet (who checks page 2 on google search ?), so they choose who can sell under which conditions, and susprisingly the conditions are profitable for them.
They are using people as robots in their facilities, paying them minimum wage and exchanging them at will once their body cannot cope anymore with the pace. Why do people then work for amazon if the conditions are that tough ? Because they need the paycheck to survive. One amazon created job destroys 22 other jobs somewhere else.

Everybody grins when the gafas are compared to Orwell'S Big Brother, but let's face it : we are running to this very situation at a faster pace than everyone thinks - in not more than en years, google will decide what is good for us by showing us the correct search results for us, amazon will send us what we need, facebook/whatsapp will decide about who will be elected, netflix will provide chosen entertainement. I do not know what world we are leaving to our children (and I did not even mention global warming), but unfortunately, I think my generation had the best life on the planet ever - it can only going downwards from now Sigh | :sigh:

All this and it is only monday... The week is going to be tough Big Grin | :-D

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