Amazon is great
They also make Bitcoin gift cards very easy
Discussion
Imagine the convenience of Amazon but without the censorship and evil practices!
If sellers of goods used a marketplace not owned by a monopolistic and hungry middle man but a decentralized, competitive protocol, we'd be better off.
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Totally yes the eBay type side can be improved I think
Ebay was superceded by Amazon for its shipping coordination and discovery process. I think we can do the same for our openness.
Yes, and shipping will be a friction point. So many times we look at ordering direct from retailers and the shipping cost makes it seem silly.
Shipping is indeed a hurdle, but the business needed to set up the open infrastructure can also be an open and decentralized process. It takes a plan, organization, and willing participants.
and then a bunch of freelance drivers to sue and claim that they are employees ... 🤗
Sure whom? The protocol? The programmers? The many business owners whose goods they ship?
Yes, I understand that, but pleb the van driver won't. Then he'll quit.
Maybe I am pessimistic about it.
Let’s set up an Amazon competitor in El Salvador
Speaking of which, that's the other Tucker content I'm listening to right now
The Ebay-Uber-Amazon-etc phenomenon is about organizing business between people. Where they gall short is the centralization of control, and that's where Nostr can attack.