{"id":1073,"date":"2020-05-06T20:26:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T20:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:38:46","slug":"tim-bray-is-leaving-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/06\/tim-bray-is-leaving-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/202x\/2020\/04\/29\/Leaving-Amazon\">https:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/202x\/2020\/04\/29\/Leaving-Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amazon is exceptionally well-managed and has demonstrated great skill at spotting opportunities and building repeatable processes for exploiting them. It has a corresponding lack of vision about the human costs of the relentless growth and accumulation of wealth and power. If we don\u2019t like certain things Amazon is doing, we need to put legal guardrails in place to stop those things. We don\u2019t need to invent anything new; a combination of antitrust and living-wage and worker-empowerment legislation, rigorously enforced, offers a clear path forward.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t say it can\u2019t be done, because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-52346451\">France is doing it<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/202x\/2020\/04\/29\/Leaving-Amazon Amazon is exceptionally well-managed and has demonstrated great skill at spotting opportunities and building repeatable processes for exploiting them. It has a corresponding lack of vision about the human costs of the relentless growth and accumulation of wealth and power. If we don\u2019t like certain things Amazon is doing, we need to put legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookmarks","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4185,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/4185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}