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> If Amazon finds your product on another website for lower than its own website, it'll just hide your listing from the search -- this is meant to be pro-consumer (when you go to Amazon, you'll get the lowest price).

This is a funny idea of pro-consumer, as we all know that the result of this is increased prices.

The seller can not afford to reduce the Amazon price to match other channels and still pay Amazon's margin, or afford to have the product hidden and lose the channel - and so is forced to increase the price elsewhere.

The net result is prices increase across the board, and Amazon gets to tell customers they are getting the 'lowest price', but they did it by increasing the price across the whole market.

This is pro-Amazon both in terms of margin and market share. In many ways, it is also pro-competitor/seller/distributor/agency... but it is very much anti-consumer.

And, as I hope we will soon see proven, illegal.

The average guy is exactly the person responsible for global warming. The evil of the world is just the meta accumulation of the average person following their mirco incentives.

Or just use Logseq/Roam/Reflect/Obsidian etc

> We are constantly in pain, it’s just that we have calibrated our brains to ignore specific levels of pain or cut off completely sensors.

> Typical example of signal we filter out is the sense of our organs moving inside our body.

Interesting, do you have a source for this? Would love to read more.

I believe this is mainly about sustainablity over consumer protection

I am very sure that to get the deal done Microsoft would have had to work with Kotick. I am also very confident that they do not support him and that he will be gone way before the end of the year.

Edit: It seems it's not expected to close until 2023 so maybe it takes MS longer to get him out.

Well, his estate does