How Amazon Reshapes Small Business to Serve Itself w/ Moira Weigel
Tech Won't Save Us
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Amazon's Platformization of Risk and Responsibility
Amazon has these business agreements with its third party sellers in which they basically renounced to any kind of rights over anything. I could tell a million stories about Amazon suspending businesses or suspending products and people losing millions of dollars literally over that. That sort of how this logic of platformization works it's like how do you take the risk and work and shift it onto third parties to whom you own nothing right? It also illustrates the extent to which these two digital capitalisms or these two platform economies are deeply deeply entangled so Amazon not only does this platformization thing but does it at a global scale and in ways that entangle the US and China in particular.
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