If there is a forum policy against posting links it seems to be selectively enforced since many other threads have links to all kinds of sites and products so I assumed there was no harm in doing so.
Jeff Bezos has been making it his job to put the rest of us out of business. That's a monopoly.
If Jeff wants ads on "my" web site, he will have to "pay" for them.
On 60 minutes, he was quoted several times on camera saying that he was running at a loss for 7-8 years, with the entire point, that he would put out of business all competition. He is entering the construction business, both labor and material. He's now worth more than 25 billion dollars, and yet he has publicly said, that he intends to bankrupt all of the rest of us. As you can guess, that makes my upset. Check out the video below at the 7:45 point, where he explains how he intends to destroy anyone that doesn't sell through him.
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/amazons-jeff-bezos-looks-to-the-future/
I don't know what you do for a living, but he's coming after you.
This was a guy that started out delivering groceries to homes. Now he's worth 25 billion, and he wants "everything"
Twentyfive billion is just a start.
I watched the "entire" 60 minute episode when it first aired. I haven't met anyone else that has.
Updated 10/11/2018
153.4 Billion of net worth now.
Amazon has contacted me many times over the last ten years. Each time, it was with the intent to get the lions share of any profit I could muster. He wants people like me to do his service and his work, but he wants the profit.
I was raised in a nice area, the same area that Jeff Bezos is from. I didn't think I was third world, but Jeff is pushing us that direction. There is no way I can continue to run a business at 1/3 the revenue and doing the same amount of work. I have the normal business licensing, and insurance for doing construction, which Amazon doesn't have.
They want to be contractors and force the "subs" that do his work to cover all the hard expenses of getting the work done.
Vehicles, gas, repairs, bonding, licensing, insurance, employee expenses, training, pickup and disposal of waste.
Amazon is enlisting "handymen" to do plumbing work. You purchase what you think is a plumber, and they send out a handyman without any plumbing training. The plumbers work under a journeyman and have to take schooling, and at the end of 6,000 hours of that, they get to take their licensing test. Amazon skips that training for many of the plumbing projects.
If you don't think he's coming after your business or your job, think again. He is.
Looking at the video again, it looks like the web version doesn't have all the content of the television broadcast.
The television version had Jeff saying that Amazon was running at a loss for 7-8 years.
The web version edits that out. I was stunned when I sat down in December and listened to Jeff say he was going into "all" businesses, and putting them "all" out of business. I guess somebody in marketing rethought how that sounded, and now we see the edit.
I wish that I had that on the DVR still.