 Re: When do you think AI will take over e-commerce?
Amazon turned into a big monopoly that will make the existence of sellers not important at all in the future, unless one is selling something rare or not mainstream.
I am really glad Ebay and other marketplaces do exist, I do consider them a beam of hope (to say the least).
It pisses me off when the media talks about how Jeff Bezos changed the world. All what he did was putting Walmart on the internet and destroying thousands of businesses because nobody could say a word.
I mean what's the whole purpose of Amazon warehouses after all? The reason behind all of this is to make Jeff and shareholders richer. Sure, a lot of sellers have profited from AZ, but I am afraid that's a temporary advantage of that marketplace. I think in a few years most of the products sold on Amazon will be sold directly by Amazon.
They started this FBA program as a first step towards accomplishing just that.
I hope Trump will punish Amazon somehow and slow them down until some government body puts this malicious company in check (hopefully).
For a company like Amazon to be investing that much into AI is really worrisome, the whole point of doing that is automating the selling process. Period.
They are really playing a very dangerous game and affecting the economics of sellers, families...etc in a very negative manner.
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