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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 951 Is Amazon Evil?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Although most people seemed pleased on so-called Prime Day, Amazon has its critics, too. Do the criticisms hold water?

Show notes for Ep. 951

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 951.

0:03.5

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0:08.3

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0:14.8

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0:25.5

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0:29.1

Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Short little episode today, I am thinking. It's on Amazon.

0:36.4

And it's just a response to an article somebody sent me called Why I'm Never Signing Up for Amazon Prime.

0:44.3

You think, why do I care why somebody's going to sign up for Amazon Prime or not?

0:49.0

What difference does that make?

0:49.9

Well, it doesn't really make a difference, the one person, but the arguments that are raised about

0:54.7

Amazon, I think are not that strong. And I just found it interesting that I had to, I searched around

1:03.0

and people think they're really cheeky if they write an article in defense of Amazon, because

1:08.7

everyone just assumes that Amazon must be evil. And I'm

1:12.2

trying to figure out why Amazon is evil. And the main reason seems to be that it satisfies an

1:17.1

awful lot of people and allows a lot of people to save money. I can't really see, I see a couple

1:23.9

things about Amazon employees, but those are almost always mentioned as an

1:28.5

afterthought. Really, it's that Amazon's just too darn good. It's so weird that we've gotten to

1:35.1

that point. And you'll see that in this article by a guy named Vlad Sevov. I'll link to it at

1:41.1

tomwoods.com slash 951.1 and uh well let me start off first of all the whole

1:48.9

context of this is that amazon as you may know has something called prime day what day prime day

1:57.3

prime day is when if you're a member of Amazon Prime, you have a subscription to it,

2:03.2

you get access to all kinds of crazy deals. And this particular writer is giving us reasons that

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