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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 21 Oct 2020

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      Well look this is one of those pieces where I actually agree with the point and I've seen people bring it up a ton before ("Wait so it's just okay in the movie that he drove her out of business? That's fucked up") but this piece attracts dunks for being so damn serious about it https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1319066902174552064 …

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 21 Oct 2020

      The Onion made this point a lot better by making it obliquely several years ago With a fake preview of You've Got Mail 2, about how the bookstore chain Tom Hanks works for is about to be driven out of business by Amazon, whose CEO Jeff Bezos has no interest in dating him

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    3. Claire Willett‏ @clairewillett 21 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      There’s a great episode of Slate’s Decoder Ring podcast about this which is basically like, remember when Barnes & Noble were the bad guys because we had no idea how much worse things were about to get

      1 reply 0 retweets 19 likes
    4. IT’S ALWAYS PSL SEASON  💐 🌳 🍄‏ @BeccaTheWitz 21 Oct 2020
      Replying to @clairewillett @arthur_affect

      And Borders, depending on region, but the people running that company made So Many Shitty business decisions that it’s demise was inevitable. Amazon was just an accelerant.

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 21 Oct 2020
      Replying to @BeccaTheWitz @clairewillett

      See that's the thing Even if you agree with this movie's POV that Barnes and Nobles isn't that bad and it's great to have a Starbucks in the bookstore and everything, it wasn't gonna last Their business model was fucked, their killing small businesses was a murder/suicide

      2 replies 3 retweets 17 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 21 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BeccaTheWitz @clairewillett

      Like all the native plant life on an island being killed off by an invasive weed only for the weed to itself then get killed off by a blight because it's a vulnerable monoculture

      1 reply 1 retweet 17 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 21 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BeccaTheWitz @clairewillett

      Giant brick and mortar chains like that just took all the square footage in America being used to sell books (or toys or whatever) and made it into one big fat combined target for asset stripping by hedge funds

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        2. IT’S ALWAYS PSL SEASON  💐 🌳 🍄‏ @BeccaTheWitz 21 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @clairewillett

          My parents know a small bookstore owner in Portland. Her biggest issue has been Powell’s for as long as I can remember due to how book distributors would divvy up stock.

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        3. IT’S ALWAYS PSL SEASON  💐 🌳 🍄‏ @BeccaTheWitz 21 Oct 2020
          Replying to @BeccaTheWitz @arthur_affect @clairewillett

          The late 90s and 00s were a real “sink or swim” period when it comes to having a retail model that could keep up with shifting supply chains and customer reach.

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        2. Trevor Seigler‏ @T_L_Seigler 21 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @BeccaTheWitz @clairewillett

          It's very sobering to consider how quickly the shark that ate the little fish of "Shop Around the Corner" was itself consumed by Amazon and online retailers. I can remember the concept of buying things like groceries online being mocked. Now it's so common place.

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        3. Trevor Seigler‏ @T_L_Seigler 21 Oct 2020
          Replying to @T_L_Seigler @arthur_affect and

          The only way "You've Got Mail" could be even more outdated is if Tom Hanks ran Blockbuster and it forced Meg Ryan's family videostore out of business.

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        2. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 21 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @BeccaTheWitz @clairewillett

          my own zero-evidence take is that "amazon destroyed x!" is usually false amazon is literally just the sears mail-order catalog, it's not a new business model what destroyed local retail is real estate prices driven by the undersupply and financialization of real estate

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        3. IT’S ALWAYS PSL SEASON  💐 🌳 🍄‏ @BeccaTheWitz 21 Oct 2020
          Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect @clairewillett

          Depends on market segment. When it comes to books, there’s reams of evidence that Amazon’s predatory pricing did contribute to shrinking the number of independent sellers. Many that could have survived B&N’s increasing market share, were unable to survive both Amazon AND B&N.

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