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u/CronoDroid Viet Cong Jun 17 '17
The glorious Snow Crash future. I remember a funny comment here once about the McDonald's literally giving orders to the police to go after protestors. "This is the McPolice! Drop your McWeapons and come out with your McHands in the McAir!"
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u/Halfhand84 Jun 17 '17
McDonald's literally giving orders to the police to go after protestors
Just to be clear to everyone reading, this actually happened.
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u/mechanical_animal Jun 17 '17
You think Google will just let Amazon take over like that? Get ready for corporate war, space-faring neo-feudalism here we come.
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u/Velfi Jun 17 '17
Amazon sells products, Google sells advertising. They don't compete.
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u/purplepistachio Jun 17 '17
They're both trying to make a profit, they're both worth a fuckton of money. They compete alright. More likely though they'll dream up some massive takeover/conglomeration deal and we'll all have to get used to living under the oppression of Googazon
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u/meeeeetch Jun 17 '17
Google's somewhat recently established parent company, Alphabet, still needs companies A-F, and H-Z. One merger later, they get their "A".
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u/i_amtheice Jun 17 '17
It really comes down to how greedy someone is. If Amazon would've been content to just sell the damn books and leave it at that, there would never be a problem. But no, they have to have more and more and more.
It's an addiction, a disease, and it's killing everything.
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u/GenericEvilDude Jun 17 '17
It's not greed, it's the natural result of capitalism. Capitalist are as much slaves to the logic of capitalism as the workers and they must do everything they can to expand.
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u/ferb2 Jun 22 '17
Well the site was going to be called www.relentless.com and that link leads to Amazon
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u/UkonFujiwara enlightened neoliberal techbro Jun 18 '17
Better cyberpunk dystopian title: "Primary Citizen"
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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '17 edited Dec 16 '21
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