[HN Gopher] Is This How Amazon Ends?
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       Is This How Amazon Ends?
        
       Author : rokkitmensch
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2024-01-01 20:54 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | local_crmdgeon wrote:
       | Amazon doesn't make money from the website, so no, this isnt how
       | it ends. Maybe this is how the end of the beginning of Amazon
       | looks
        
       | add-sub-mul-div wrote:
       | Twitter and Reddit showed in 2023 that there's a size you can
       | reach after which you can ramp up the enshittification past the
       | point once thought possible and only a small number will leave.
       | Amazon has sucked for a long time but it has runway to keep
       | going, it will take a generation or longer for something as big
       | as Amazon to "end."
        
       | 88913527 wrote:
       | It works because they have AWS. If the entirety of the business
       | was only the consumer site, it's looking more and more like Wish
       | with each passing day.
        
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