Quote Originally Posted by GilpinGuy View Post
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ETA: I ordered some bore snakes and Barristol last night - take that liberals! I order A LOT of shit from Amazon as well. Living in a relatively remote area makes this awesome. I save gas and (more importantly) time. And I burn all of the cardboard boxes, further increasing my carbon footprint. Win!
Quote Originally Posted by BladesNBarrels View Post
Amazon is the Ward's and Sear's of today.
People use internet versus catalogs now.
Inevitable path of change.
Death is the only way to avoid.

Isn't that a cheerful conclusion?


Living in rural America today, online orders and door to door delivery is not only practical but almost a necessity. I can't tell you how many hours and hundreds of miles I logged just looking for a fucking electric blanket last month at retail stores in Longmont and Grand Junction. I ended up buying a good one for $109 via Amazon that Pennys in GJ priced at $200. The Longmont Penny's closed last month for lack of business. Go figure.

And hey, I needed new trail hiking boots but I have big feet. No brick and mortar store carries the size or quality I need. When I find something on Amazon that I need, I always look to buy direct from smaller vendors but Amazon and it's suppliers almost always wins in selection and price.


It's more than a little ironic that rural Americans who are for the most part conservative, are buying and supporting a successful mega corporation headed by an avowed leftist. These capitalists will be seen as the new age robber barons. If history is a predictor then we can expect a populist uprising, union growth and influence, and more central governmental control to control the capitalists, and then the unions. For a time a new middle class may grow but eventually only the people at the top win, particularly the .gov for the taxes it can purloin, and the executives in an ever shrinking elite.