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That has literally nothing to do with Amazon, the company. If you don't buy products on Amazon.com you're still paying online companies who pay Amazon for using their web services.

THAT'S what it means for Amazon to be too big to fail: the consumer does NOT have any power anymore. We passed that point. Simply by participating in society, some of your money will end up in Amazon's hands, because they own the infrastructure on which society now runs.



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