Amazon made the finalists sign non-disclosure agreements. They promised big jobs and got big tax breaks. Now what?
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How to launder money thru Walmart and Amazon
I am gonna do most of my money laundering thru Walmart but, I’ve got my eye on Amazon’s new ‘no credit check reloadable debit card’
Amazon and Walmart. Retail Post-mortem
The Amazon blast radius, retail nuclear bomb
Amazon Prime is a planet
🌍 Amazon and the megacorps, have replaced Territorial Sovereignty with Functional Sovereignty
It’s their country and your just living in it
🫡 saluting their flag 🏳️🌈
💉 injecting their passport
Amazon becomes your local drug pusher. And they deliver
Amazon is building the capabilities to influence personal behavior and consumer habits outside the doctor’s office.
That should get you worried and it might also get you unemployed.
Amazon takes hostages, it’s mom and pop
Mayors, governors, controllers, local political bureaucrat and activists in some of our bigger states and cities have spayed and neutered themselves because they want the carrot to stay dangling of a new local Amazon HQ, and because they are afraid Amazon might cease operations in their state. Nobody wants that headline
Beware the Google company town
Google company town is omnipresent capitalism, militarizing and regimenting workers to make them ideologically and behaviorally economized
How Amazon avoids paying its taxes and sticks you with the bill
Profits at Amazon come from its Intellectual Property, patents, software, etc. It’s stateless income. But what about the taxes?
Planet Amazon Prime
Is Amazon a country? What is a country? What is a citizen? What is a consumer? Is an End User License Agreement better than the Constitution? Are we living in companies, or should we be? Read the list…
Amazon 2017 2nd quarter earnings
Forensics on Amazon 2nd quarter earnings. From great to good to bad. For the first time since Q4 of 2013, net unearned revenue was negative
Amazon. High Convenience and Creeping Tyranny
The Amazon trick is that as long as consumers are getting one-click ordering and same-day delivery, they can creep its tyranny.
When the Amazon tyranny turns inwards
Tyrannies always turn inwards. Amazon is an invading America from the inside, hollowing out our institution and extracting taxpayer wealth
Amazon cheap prices and real problems
The ghosts of Amazon’s earnings, past, present and future. Also starring Amazon Web Services. Do monopsonies become monopolies?
A no BS review of Amazon bookstore
I went to the Amazon Bookstore today. this is my review. I am wary of any store that has a greeter, this isn’t my first rodeo…
The Amazon trap and rhetorical props
Reverse engineering the Amazon statement on its acquisition of Whole Foods. A rhetorical prop meant to dampen, if not eliminate, societal and political resistance to automation.