My partner and I were talking recently about apple watches and how if they existed under a different system then they could really be for the greater good. What are some other things that would have been very good under communism?
Amazon is unironically based as fuck, it’s just the union busting and other capitalist bullshit (dumping product to maximize profits) that make it really evil. When you consider what they did to get big, most of it is just infrastructure stuff. You can’t really say that about a lot of companies who base their value on extraction rather than creation. Socialist-alternate-reality Amazon is probably universally adored.
This is why I always say that the idea of breaking up Amazon is stupid, and what we need to do is nationalize Amazon. And Walmart too while we’re at it.
Breaking up monopolies is socdem nonsense about “competitivity” and “big business oppressing small businesses”, while having infrastructure from a monopolized company built up is likely to make the transititon to socialism easier.
Exactly. Small businesses are just as evil as bit ones, and economies of scale are real. Walmart and Amazon are amazing feats of logistics and human labor. To be able to go to nearly any town in the country and go to the same store you know that will have most of the items you’ll ever need, or to have those items delivered to your door in a very short time, are amazing things. The problem is the ownership.
A case could be made that Amazon is proof positive that, with modern technology and logistics, a planned economy could actually work.
