In Reply to: Long live the Internet ... posted by Feanor on October 28, 2017 at 07:10:37:
> > I don't waste much sympathy on money-grubbing small business retailers, (or big business retailers either, e.g. Sears) < <
What about money-grubbing Internet retailers such as Amazon. The owner is worth $80 billion (Jeff Bezos), yet he pays his employees squat, forces them to work in poor conditions, won't allow them to unionize, and so on.
In the meantime, he has enough money to buy The Washington Post (as pocket change) and since he has a contract with the CIA for 2.5x the purchase-price of the newspaper, simply uses the press as a mouthpiece for his pro-CIA, pro-military-industrial complex, pro-war agenda - feeding pure propaganda (fake news) to the US citizenry.
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Follow Ups
- What About Money Grubbing Internet Retailers? - Charles Hansen 10/28/1716:05:40 10/28/17 (16)
- RE: What About Money Grubbing Internet Retailers? - jea48 10:08:47 10/30/17 (0)
- Internet retailers grub money too, only they do it more efficiently -nt - Feanor 09:01:54 10/29/17 (14)
- RE: "more efficiently"? - HarryDStanton 16:30:47 10/29/17 (13)
- Good explaination why the middle class is losing ground in the US - jea48 10:19:25 10/30/17 (7)
- RE: losing ground - HarryDStanton 11:15:27 10/30/17 (6)
- RE: losing ground - Charles Hansen 11:38:39 10/31/17 (5)
- RE: losing ground - JURB 11:30:57 11/3/17 (3)
- Just to be clear - Inmate51 22:41:40 11/10/17 (2)
- RE: Just to be clear: Discretionary vs Mandatory - tketcham 10:16:25 11/11/17 (0)
- RE: Just to be clear - fantja 05:16:15 11/11/17 (0)
- RE: losing ground - Inmate51 09:17:02 11/3/17 (0)
- Brilliant post, thank you! - Charles Hansen 01:01:40 10/30/17 (2)
- A dangerous stance perhaps... - HarryDStanton 10:43:37 10/30/17 (1)
- RE: A dangerous stance perhaps... - Charles Hansen 11:30:43 10/31/17 (0)
- So you're in favor of an increase in the minimum wage? - Feanor 17:55:59 10/29/17 (1)
- Not that the "average retail man" is better than Amazon - HarryDStanton 18:40:41 10/29/17 (0)