Amazon.com replaced local community; charges us for the benefits of personal connection

Bruce Dickson
Nov 1 · 3 min read

It’s more and more clear to me how the economic niche Amazon.com exploits is the vacuum left by the collapse of weak authentic local community, which preceded it.

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It’s true K-Mart, Walmart, Amazon strategize to kill local mom and pop stores. Yet, this would not have been possible if local consumers loved their…

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