The word Amazon appears in this article 34 times. The actual article is the same "zen fluff" of "I need less consumer goods" and "I was suddenly realizing I was buying useless crap".
This is such an amazing coincidence. I stopped reading Pando articles. It wasn't a conscious boycott. It just happened after reading a few articles and seeing little to no value in exchange for the time reading each one.
I wonder how much money this sort of non-article article brings in, and I wonder at how soon before we're using bayesian techniques to generate these sorts of stories from non-actual-authors. Automaton authors serving page views to automaton viewers clicking on ads they will never read.
The advertisers know they are getting fleeced, see the story about the Facebook hordes. I wonder when that particularly sorry pigeon will come to roost.
I wonder if the author did any research or reflection into the supply chain of the local shops he so self-ingratiatingly now espouses. Does he know for sure that the books he special orders from inside of a building other than his home don't just, you know, come from Amazon?
Actually, that would make a lot of sense. If a bookstore ordered its special-order books from Amazon, it could get them shipped for free in two days (with Prime) and re-sell the book for list price, making a decent profit. Probably a lot faster than ordering the book from the publisher.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 32.1 ms ] thread(These words were just about as enlightening as the article.)
I wonder how much money this sort of non-article article brings in, and I wonder at how soon before we're using bayesian techniques to generate these sorts of stories from non-actual-authors. Automaton authors serving page views to automaton viewers clicking on ads they will never read.
The advertisers know they are getting fleeced, see the story about the Facebook hordes. I wonder when that particularly sorry pigeon will come to roost.