Uber is (still) a bezzle ("the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it"). And every bezzle - *every* bezzle - ends. 1/
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Any time a government starts to make noises about regulating Amazon Marketplace to end its predatory and negligent management towards third-party sellers, the company trots out all kinds of apologists who claim that "Amazon is great for small businesses." 1/
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But the daily reality for users of Amazon's platform is very different. They must somehow cope with automated account suspensions and terminations that can only be appealed to barely-supervised bots. 3/