Re: And we still do business with China ?
we still do business with China?
You need to add
Saudi Arabia (unless oil and weapon sales are more important, and murdering critics is fair game), Israel (unless it is "just" Arab civilian "collateral", not civilian casualties).
Ooh and the United States too. (slavery, international bullying, citizen and ally spying, political interference, enviromental destruction, climate change, low animal welfare and human welfare standards, far right supporting government that seems to organising a coup)
China frankly is not the worst in the list. For now. Today US is the bully and the EU is a countering force. An argument is if China or US will be the worse bully in the future. Are two bullies better than one?
>>we lose thousands of skilled, well paid jobs replacing them with minimum wage warehouse grunts
Surely for that substitution to be tenable and practical - either they are not using the skills, or people do not value those skills.
Amazon is about scale and efficiency (including tax efficiency). Ideally a competitor should have come in to counter them, but for whatever reason that does not happen.
I'd certainly prefer more efficient and large scale service providers, but that does not mean there should be none by your logic.
All brick and mortar stores today are becoming about the immediacy of delivery of goods/services and/or the interaction with those goods/services (VR is eating into this in time).
If there isn't wide demand for both or either of the above, Amazon will gobble that business in time. What we need is more companies to chase scale and efficiency, why isn't that happening?