Once the fringiest of marginal groups, the DSA now has close to 130,000 members, up from 5,000 15 years ago. And its members are winning Democratic primaries across the country.
Megan Romer, national co-chair, said its growth reflected a deep frustration with a system she said was failing young people. “People are, like, well, OK, capitalism’s not working,” she said in an interview. “So what else is there?”
Good point! Well explained!
Amazon is the end result…
Amazon “guarentees” the lowest prices, and that’s true.
If a product is sold on Amazon, that’s the lowest price.online. The manufacturer can’t even sell it for lower on their own website.
Because Amazon uses AI scrapers to constantly check, if it detects a lower price, it will “you may be overpaying for this item” in big red letters next to it, or even removing the buttons that let someone buy it.
So before they can lower the price anywhere, they have to lower it on Amazon. Because they need the volume that comes with Amazon sales.
Amazon’s “lowest price guarantee” just ends up meaning they keep people from getting it cheaper anywhere else. But for an individual, each individual purchase is a better deal at Amazon.
To win we need a drastic boycott where everyone just toughs it out and pays a little more for slower shipping to buy direct again. The manufacturers will make more per unit, and eventually will be able to stop playing Amazon’s game.
And that would leave Amazon with just Temu slop, and actually financially impact Bezos.
All we gotta do is get people to think big picture, we could bankrupt Bezos in less than a year.