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“Amazon brags about this technique, which it calls ‘the fly-wheel.’ It brings in users with low prices and a large selection. This attracts merchants who are eager to sell to those users. The merchants’ dependence on these customers allows Amazon to extract higher discounts from those merchants, and that brings in more merchants, allowing the company to require even deeper discounts….”

"The argument that 'if you're not paying for the product, you're the product' is herein revealed as bunk.... Respect for your privacy isn't a rebate you get for every $1,000 you spend on an iPhone. Companies abuse you *if they can get away with it*."