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Cost of lockdown already £1,500,000 per 'life saved'
Cost of lockdown already £1,500,000 per 'life saved'
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You can't look at it like the OP says, because with global trade and airline travel paralysed, we'd have lost a fortune anyway. Hospitals would've been overrun and the public would have been up in arms and caused a massive furore, forcing lockdown at even greater cost.
But hypothetically, if people could stomach it, and the world had carried on virtually as normal, we'd have got a much better long term result imho. Poorer countries like Mexico Brazil Iran Belarus and Afghanistan etc are doing the right thing for them, even though their case and fatality figures are utter BS |
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Yeah, the tory kill the poor approach
That's been trialled since the 70s. |
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Yeah I can see opposite Venezualan approach has been a huge success. Live it up for 5-10 years with your head in the sand, and pay for it massively forever after. There's going to be far more poor because of lockdown, which kind of illustrates my point and yours, that increased poverty increases deaths, and of course quality of life.
Plenty of refugees risking their lives to be poor in this country |
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Jeff Bezos is worth $145,000,000,000 yet everyone shops at Amazon ffs
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that's what makes me shake my head. We voted for BREXIT out of apparent national pride, yet here we all, buying goods from a foreign retailer and lining Jeff's pockets
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Amazon has nothing to do with Brexit obviously. Amazon is so successful due to an amazing business model, and it delivers (pardon the pun). Obviously there's huge discussion on how the global internet giants are fairly taxed. And the working conditions of those who manufacture many of those products.
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Amazon is very successful, but it is taking over the UK retail sector. That isn't good for the UK. There's nowhere near enough emphasis in this country on buying from British retailers. If we do love our independence so much, we should be buying from British retailers as there are no shortage of retailers. I don't have an issue with buying goods made overseas, because you can't get them otherwise.
The bigger Amazon gets, the bigger the advantage it has, as it has the buying power to source goods more cheaply |
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Cost of lockdown..... Brexit.... Amazon
Tangents, yet connected by failure of brain. |
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It's always at the top of Google. Get people in the habit of scrolling down further. They may find the products cheaper too.
Maybe the government should introduce a system, whereby if you are searching for a product in the UK, UK retailers get a higher preference |
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Maybe the tax dodging tories could bring in a tax on amazon to stop
them paying their UK taxes at lower rate elsewhere. Tough as they seem hell bent on bringing in more tax dodges not less |
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Alphabet itself is coining in cash from that very same search. If you're using Google is that not similar to using Amazon? It's up to the competition to get better, not drag the market leader down to the level of others.
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There are no UK search engine's AFAIK. Loads of alternatives to Amazon though. Amazon has the equivalent of monopoly powers. There are laws against that as it's not in the public's interest, because it stifles competition.
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If you were choosing search engines based on principle, not many would have Google as first choice.
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People know Amazon is a US company. It's a hard fact.
Whether Google is less ethical than other search engines is an opinion, not a hard fact, and is based on incomplete information. |
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If there was a viable UK alternative to Google I'd definitely use it though
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Internet for people, not profit — Mozilla (UK)www.mozilla.org › en-GB
Mozilla is the not-for-profit behind the lightning fast Firefox browser. We put people over profit to give everyone more power online. |
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Firefox is my browser of choice
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How do you know Amazon is 'always' at the top of Google if you don't use Google
 Anyway, Amazon isn't growing sales exponentially from just being at the top of searches. It's simply the best at what it does, right now anyway. Sure it's got the financial clout to do what it likes but that's because it's been great at what it does and started from zero. I'm sure you've seen this before but it's worth revisiting. .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GltlJO56S1g |
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I feel like this model will end the large supermarket too.
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY0nNPT75xY |
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cost of lockdown here please.
Duckduckgo if you dont want to use google. |
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I said I use Firefox. I use Google on Firefox
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Duckduckgo is American
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