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                    1. This is a fun exercise in completely missing the point vox.com/the-goods/2018/11/7/18073356/amazon-holiday-shopping-mailers
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                    There's this idea that the Amazon Methodology is somehow inherently superior and that's what beat out competitors. That's not what is happening here. It isn't what happened with Casper. It isn't a coincidence that this occurs after their largest toy competitor stopped operation.
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                  This is Big Tech disruption 101 - Chronotope/813775079066783746
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                These companies use various funds and capital to undercut existing providers who are doing Old Way of X. It isn't that their methodology is superior, it's just very easy to outmaneuver Toys R Us when you can undercut their prices to the point of serious loss per unit sold.
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              The inevitability of this is the good prices remain until all the competitors are eliminated and then you take on their time-worn techniques, adopt what remaining customer base they had before they kicked the bucket, and jack up the prices.
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            Like one of the many points to everything Amazon does was to finally replace the Toys R Us mailers you got as a kid with Amazon mailers. To call this cyclical is to call a boat launch buoyant. Yes, but that was always the point.
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          Like so much of what is going on in the rest of the world this is a trick for boomers to give control over to Big Tech. Boomers and Gen X see discounted prices until they die, and then the younger generations get stuck with the initial return to old prices...
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        If humanity lasts long enough for Millennial's kids to reach adulthood, they'll get the opportunity to see prices go above the baseline, as monopoly power and the final extinguishment of competitors allows Big Tech to set the prices as high as the marketplace can stand.
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      Inevitably we'll all be buying from one company, whose prices are set so high we have to get credit from the same company, so we pay one company twice to buy things for too high a price.
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    It's Vertically Integrated Capitalistic Dystopia Lemon youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ7oht6TD9c
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