Post #2106916
2023-01-20 01:49 UTC
Replies (9)
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@jiva@devoe.social 2023-01-20 02:28
@mrzaius@hachyderm.io @uliwitness@chaos.social question: why is this bad? Some people I know would say this shows capitalism is compassionate. They’d argue that amazons motivation is irrelevant and the out come of the charity receiving anything is good. So what’s bad here, other than just being judgy about why they’re doing it.
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@paisley_peinforte@mastodon.social 2023-01-20 02:37
@mrzaius@hachyderm.io So it was never about doing good at all. I'm surprised that I'm surprised by this.
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@drwho@hackers.town 2023-01-20 02:40
@mrzaius@hachyderm.io I'm kind of impressed by that degree of cold bloodedness. That takes real James Bond villain dedication.
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@ares@kolektiva.social 2023-01-20 02:40
@mrzaius@hachyderm.io so amazon smile supposedly started as a way to avoid paying google for search traffic which sounds exactly like the kind of cold, soulless, mercenary thing amazon would do except that google doesn't get paid for regular search results, they only get paid for ad clicks and if amazon doesn't want to pay for ad clicks, then amazon could just stop running ads and amazon is ending the program, but google still exists, so if avoiding google was the reason, then why stop the program? sorry, this story doesn't add up @anildash@me.dm
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@varx@cybersecurity.theater 2023-01-20 02:53
@mrzaius@hachyderm.io I mean, I'm not surprised that it wasn't fundamentally about doing good. I'm just surprised that it wasn't about doing something awful, either! (Cost neutral is curious. I wonder why they didn't want it to be profitable?)
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@mbbroberg@floss.social 2023-01-20 03:19
@Quinnypig@awscommunity.social this is the most “I’ve been in the industry too long” moment for me. I literally sipped my beer and said, “yup, that makes sense”
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@alexisdyslexic@urbanists.social 2023-01-20 03:28
@mrzaius@hachyderm.io 'for charity' is starting to sound alot like 'thoughts and prayers' also most charities are scam.
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@wirepair@mastodon.social 2023-01-20 03:34
@mrzaius@hachyderm.io Jesus that is grim
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@mav@hackers.town 2023-01-20 04:06
@mrzaius@hachyderm.io Son of a bitch. :fire_angry: