Let’s Make Amazon Into a Dumb Pipe
![A modified Amazon product listing page; the buy with Amazon button and Prime logo have been replaced with a “Buy from DIY Center” button a “Buy local” logo with an upside-down Amazon smile logo, and the “In Stock” wordmark has been replaced with “In stock at a local merchant: DIY Center”](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i0.wp.com/pluralistic.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/baaf4-19hu90dqyrez3g5j-a_bzea.png?w=840&ssl=1)
Downtrodden peasant: We should improve society somewhat.
Mr Gotcha: Yet you participate in society, curious! I am very intelligent. -Matt Bors, The Nib
I like supporting local retail for shopping whenever possible. But I will not shame people for buying from Amazon the magic markers they use to write “Break up Bezos’ power” on a big poster they parade outside their state attorney general’s office. -Zephyr Teachout, Break ’Em Up
Here’s a dirty secret of the antitrust movement: Amazon is very convenient!