Well I my opinion the one area that Amazon is not doing so well is supplying home decor products. Ikea and other platforms are much bigger, I believe this is the area where Amazon sees a huge market potential. Understanding what size of room does individuals have could give Amazon that edge of supplying so-called "made for only you" furniture. The entire space of personalised products and marketing is growing by leaps, understanding someones home could do wonders for Amazon. And not only in home decor space but I guess this will also help to enhance its current offerings such as improving Alexa's connectivity within the house, smart light illuminance etc.
I do agree with the content in the article but I struggle to see the line in between doing less and being intentionally lazy. I could make an argument that I am not doing something or probably doing the tasks slowly to make the best of the situation. Now doing something while taking some good time might be helpful in order to avoid errors but again how do find the sweet spot of taking your own sweet time versus just being lazy to do something.
I am not surprised that even this post has been removed from Reddit. It is strange to know that even these platforms that are popular to reject the capitalistic agenda and the industrial monopolistic behaviour themselves carry this hypocrisy of controlling the communities and the content being posted on it.
Well I also found this article by ProPublica that says U.S billionaires faced taxes as low as 0%. You say the terminology creates a bit of difference I guess, facing the tax is not equivalent of paying those taxes. An example would be Amazon's recent beef with EU regulators in Luxembourg. These giants owe taxes but they have found ways that help them not to actually pay these taxes.
I still cannot get my head around on to why the world is not embracing open sourcing of data. One way or other people get what the want so you might as well give open access and reinvent the entire business model altogether. Harnessing the power of community could be the key for this reinvention.
The big tech giants have grown too big for Governments and Lawmakers to regulate. Adding to this problem is the lobbying that runs around these premises. The following article highlights how big tech remain untouchable.
This article reminds me about another published by The Harvard Gazette, Government can't keep up with the technology. The article argues that big techs are keeping larger and larger for government to keep up with the pace. In case of ransomeware, government and the Supreme Court are trying to keep up but in my opinion, it will be long before government and bureaucracy could address the problem. Same happened in case of Bitcoin. Sure now everyone wants regulations around Cryptocurrency but it seems governments are investing in lost causes of catching up with these growing uncertainties.
I don't mean that government shouldn't be engaging in these talks and try to regulate these markets, my only concern is the pace of these two entities. Instead of using the same old frameworks of regulations and same old mentalities, unorthodox approaches can better address these issues.
Speaking with the point of general economy, it probably makes more sense to reopen office spaces as part of consumer business runs due to office goers. An example would be coffee/breakfast sales post work from home and in-office. This could help revive this part of economy which mostly runs in the background.
This short 30 second video on YouTube shows how average temperature increased globally since 1880. The irony to me is that every nation is witnessing negative impacts of global warming and climate change and yet we chose to do so little.
Truly inspiring story, I was just wondering maybe you could have also tried to raise some money via Crowdfunding sites as well. One thing is sure, you are least bothered by Sexism in case of online crowdfunding I believe.