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Originally Posted by CommonReader
Companies like Amazon and the way they operate are a political issue. If you want to claim otherwise then you should look at the UK, where companies like Starbucks and Amazon are facing a political backlash even from traditionally business friendly, conservative parties, for the way they conduct their business.
Amazon itself is under investigation by the EU commission for receiving illegal subsidies from the nice tax arrangement they have with Luxembourg.
These are political issues that have to be addressed in political terms.
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By this reasoning, virtually any post is arguably political, so political views would be legitimate and relevant comment in any thread.
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It's also obvious that Amazon's PR tries to portray publishers as greedy. It is legitimate to point out that Amazon operates on the basis that financial advantages to the consumers shall be financed by their suppliers, not by Amazon itself.
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This thread should not be about Amazon's PR. Nor is this thread about how Amazon is financing "financial benefits to the consumers", though it is interesting that you seem to accept that the consumer is getting financial benefits. And iIf Amazon's PR is portraying publishers as greedy, then I would have to say that I have seldom seen such an accurate portrayal in a PR context.
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Finally, the basis for this thread is a piece by an author who rants about class and elites. It is ironic that you accuse my contribution of being a "political rant" when the very basis for this thread is exactly such a "rant" as well.
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If the article did warrant a political rant, it would have been nice if it had more than marginal relevance. The thread had moved to some discussion on accessibility of books. Not to a discussion of greedy billionaires and work practices and allegedly "parasitic" business models. Nor of the taxi industry in your particular part of the world.
Finally, it is interesting to note that you avoid any discussion of the conduct of the traditional publishers but actually praise them!