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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 moral component of history, the most necessary component, is simply a single question, asked over and over again3 When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?

“Factory workers had their greatest influence, and were able to exact their most substantial concessions from government, during the Great Depression, in the years before they were organized into unions. Their power during the Depression was not rooted in organization, but in disruption.”

“ The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.”