Amazon is a disrupter and took advantage of a technology shift that changed consumer behavior.

Amazon played a role but so did consumers who realized they could go to a big box store, research, compare, demo and then buy cheaper online.

Technology disruption and commodity manipulation do not have the same drivers or intentions.

I don't think in the early days Amazon intended on purposely putting mom & pops out of business, they just got lucky and rode the wave towards e-commerce.

The current oil crisis started when the Russians decided they weren't gonna follow OPEC and wanted to increase production in a unilateral fashion. Mohammed bin Salman laid the smack down and said, ok, you wanna play? We can play and we can ride out short term losses to win the long game.



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