LA Public Health: The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is investigating a report of hepatitis A virus infection in an employee of Whole Foods Market in Beverly Hills...
For the pro-monopoly crowd that absolutely dominated antitrust law from the Carter administration until 2020, Amazon presents a genuinely puzzling paradox: the company's monopoly power was never supposed to emerge, and if it did, it should have crumbled immediately.
--
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
@pluralistic From the post - an incredible insight:
Amazon is the poster-child for monopoly run amok. As Yanis Varoufakis writes in Technofeudalism, Amazon has actually become a post-capitalist enterprise. Amazon doesn't make profits (money derived from selling goods); it makes rents (money charged to people who are seeking to make a profit)
BTW - personally I have not purchased anything from amazon in years. I stopped my once in a random blue moon shopping at #WholeFoods, and absolutely refuse to become a #prime member.
I don't go to #WholeFoods often, so I don't know whether this is new: there's now a “dosatetia,” with made-to order dosas, samosas, lassis, wraps, and various kinds of sauces. It looks like they're using “dosa” as a brand name, as well as a simple description of what they're selling.
I wonder whether this is just #Cupertino, where there's a large Indian-American community, or if it's everywhere.
We took a very nice walk in the park this evening. It's a bit overcast but the temperature was just right. Now I'm sitting down to enjoy this petite chocolate mousse tart my lovely wife graciously let me get at Whole Foods. I ate a pound of vegetables at lunch to get it. 🥕🥦
Goodnight friends! 🌃💤 I'm stuck watching tween drama for the next hour...
All 500-plus Whole Foods stores will soon let you pay with a palm scan (www.theverge.com)
Amazon is expanding its palm-scanning technology.