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Amazon’s Prime Day Pain Soothed By All the Money
Private data and search results aren’t the only things Big Tech dominates.
Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, laughs it off.
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Unhappy Prime Day, everybody.
Amazon.com Inc.’s fake holiday celebrating itself has not been as joyful this year as those Prime Days we once loved, when we’d gather ‘round the Prime Day Voice-Activated Tree and swap memories of what it was like to go to “bookstores” and “outside.” Some Amazon workers were on strike, protesting conditions in warehouses. And the e-commerce leviathan is in hot water with the right and left over its wealth and power – which manifests itself in ways shoppers don’t always realize.