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.
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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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.