{"id":70,"date":"2017-02-26T03:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T03:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/26\/omg-omg-omg-amazon-disrupts-again\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:22:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:22:41","slug":"omg-omg-omg-amazon-disrupts-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2017\/02\/26\/omg-omg-omg-amazon-disrupts-again\/","title":{"rendered":"OMG, OMG, OMG! Amazon disrupts again!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amazon opens its first Bay State bookstore in Dedham – The Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In this disruption Amazon continues to demonstrate its astute grasp of history, imperialist colonial history: Go into unconquered territories; undermine indigenous economies; get the locals dependent\/hooked on your products by decimating the little, backward businesses; then occupy their lands by planting first your flag, then imposing edifices with your flag.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s not really that impressive. This historically derivative paradigm was already derived by Walmart, but hey, the Amazon store is shinier so there\u2019s that. I wonder if I can buy items at the store and have them delivered by drone while I am still there shopping for more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

OMG, OMG, OMG! Amazon disrupts again!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amazon opens its first Bay State bookstore in Dedham – The Boston Globe In this disruption Amazon continues to demonstrate its astute grasp of history, imperialist colonial history: Go into unconquered territories; undermine indigenous economies; get the locals dependent\/hooked on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":217,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2015\/08\/16\/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising\/","url_meta":{"origin":70,"position":0},"title":"Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas\u2026","author":"aslam","date":"August 16, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace - The New York Times #ViaDiasporaNativeWebApp #amazon Two words came to mind: \u2018cult\u2019 and 'dystopia\u2019. original post","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":919,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/08\/07\/how-apple-and-amazon-security-flaws-led-to-my-epic\/","url_meta":{"origin":70,"position":1},"title":"How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking","author":"aslam","date":"August 7, 2012","format":"link","excerpt":"How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1803,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2018\/08\/26\/mainstream-economists-are-discussing-questions-like-whether-monopsony-the-outsize-power-of-a-few-consolidated-employers-is-part-of-the-problem-of-low-wage-growth\/","url_meta":{"origin":70,"position":2},"title":"Are Superstar Firms and Amazon Effects Reshaping the Economy? – The New York Times","author":"aslam","date":"August 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/25\/upshot\/big-corporations-influence-economy-central-bank.html Two of the most important economic facts of the last few decades are that more industries are being dominated by a handful of extraordinarily successful companies and that wages, inflation and growth have remained stubbornly low. 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