There are a lot of horrible (Uber, counterfeiters exploiting Amazon's product co-mingling etc etc) and horrifying (DoorDash) examples of the modern economy, but this seems like a great example of computing both at the edge (phones) and cloud (amazon's pricing database) for the benefit of everyone (retailer gets rid of those jeep toys; buyer elsewhere can find a jeep toy, and person driving around gets paid to facilitate). I love it.
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[ 5.6 ms ] story [ 13.3 ms ] threadThere are a lot of horrible (Uber, counterfeiters exploiting Amazon's product co-mingling etc etc) and horrifying (DoorDash) examples of the modern economy, but this seems like a great example of computing both at the edge (phones) and cloud (amazon's pricing database) for the benefit of everyone (retailer gets rid of those jeep toys; buyer elsewhere can find a jeep toy, and person driving around gets paid to facilitate). I love it.
Not afraid of hard work either.