Amazon: Who pays the price? | DW Documentary
Online retailer Amazon has been repeatedly criticized for its business practices. The US company puts pressure on retailers and exerts influence on pricing policies, thus fueling cut-throat competition.
Amazon attracts customers with low prices – but according to a former manager at the company, the reason for this is not what consumers might think. She claims that the company’s aim is not to give customers fair deals but to put retailers and manufacturers under enormous pressure.
This investigative documentary reveals the questionable methods used by the company: suppliers are prevented from selling their products below the Amazon-listed price – whether that be online or in a physical store. Insiders say that this practice not only distorts competition, but also has direct consequences for customers in the form of price rises
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Ahhh nice to see freedom spreading across Germany.
Time to buy more stock.
Also you love this materialism just as much as we do. Don’t lie to yourself.
Don't enter a contract with anyone with terms you don't understand. If you agreed to compensate a reseller of your products if their profit margin went down isn't that do to your stupidity? I don't like big international corporations either but did some of these folks not read the contract?
criminal
Now is it that an A.I.mind initiated these business strategies with a simple prompt?
Its complicated….
I deleted my account ten years ago. …you should too.
This fake competition also ruined ebay for human sellers
this happens with all e commence platforms
A rerun? I think I saw this one a while ago.
Exactly what Walmart does
Just like the East India Company got too big and obnoxious, so now has Amazon. It needs to be dissolved.
When you have LAUREN SANCHEZ influencing her husband, what the h ELSE do you expect from a MAJOR gold digger? ??????😅
Not convincing. In the first part the claim is that Amazon's tactics increase prices for the consumer. But when they go to the manufacturer they say Amazon's tactics leads to prices to plumet. The example of Ortlieb is also not very convincing. It is one of the few German brands that is outrageously over-priced. 200$ for a bike bag means that this is now a luxury product and you are paying for the brand name. This has nothing to do with customer rights. BTW I also use an Ortlieb bag but I can only afford it second hand, they could use a bit of healthy competition for sure.
It's often cheaper to buy locally now – sometimes much cheaper
Oh my, here's at least a cogent thought process:
THE ONE WITH THE MONEY DECIDES WHERE TO BUY!!
Low price is not everything. Competing for lower price destroys the domestic market and inviting dumping. Just look at EV market in China. Chasing lower price only benefit producers who disregarding employee benefit and morale standards.
I prefer buying at Amazon even their price was higher. It is mainly because they their post sale services in case there is any issue.
The leather producer can choose to sell their stuff somewhere else. Long term storage and promotion do cost money. These can never be free. No one is forcing them to work with Amazon.
Note to the narrators:
Compound nouns are stressed on part one not part two!
So it’s market position but not market position !
Every country where Amazon operates needs a Lina Khan!
Amazon should be boycotted and The Press shall defend the young merchants. The large merchants should also speak up and not use Amazon anymore. Alternatives to US amazon is a must.
😢😢😢😢
Just don't use Amazon. Simple.
STOP BUYING THINGS YOU DONT NEED JUST TO FEEL BETTER ABOUT YOURSELF
Then stop using Amazon platform for selling your products, no one holds you there 😀
Amazon amazingly targets and tackles human greed all over the world 🌍. Only the end users can punish them for their own uncontrolled and raging greed.
Amazon is a scam
bro hat die Friedrich Merz Frisur 💀 please shave bro, please, its not worth it at that stage
Their workers have been replaced by robots and AI. AI is taking everyones job this days.
The Cult of Certainty: How Scientism Mistakes Symbols for Reality
Abstract
This essay dismantles the illusion of scientific and mathematical authority over reality. It argues that physics, mathematics, and cosmology have become modern priesthoods—fluent in symbols, blind to their own assumptions, and convinced that their linguistic constructions constitute the world itself. Beneath their precision lies an unacknowledged act of faith: the belief that their frameworks, born of human limitation, can speak for the infinite complexity of Nature.
1. Introduction: The Rise of a New Dogma
Where religion once claimed the cosmos, scientism now reigns. Its prophets wear lab coats instead of robes, its scriptures are peer-reviewed, and its miracles are equations. It promises salvation through measurement, yet forgets that every instrument was built by fallible hands, every metric chosen by fallible minds.
Science is not the problem; its humility is. Scientism—the conviction that empirical method alone exhausts reality—is philosophy dressed in the armor of precision, mistaking its own reflection for the world.
2. The Frame That Sees Only Itself
Every experiment begins with a premise: what to measure, how to measure, what counts as real. Instruments do not reveal Nature; they negotiate with it, returning answers framed by the questions we taught them to ask.
To believe otherwise is to mistake a telescope for the stars. The data that scientists prize as “objective” already arrive pre-filtered through design, expectation, and interpretation. What emerges as “fact” is not a message from Nature but a conversation among humans—mediated by language, technology, and theory.
Scientism hides this circularity behind jargon and precision. Its practitioners forget that a system cannot justify its own axioms; the framework that defines observation cannot step outside itself to claim omniscience.
3. Mathematics: The Most Beautiful Pretend Game Ever Played
Mathematics is sublime—but it is also make-believe. Its truths are conditional: if these axioms, then those conclusions. When physicists write the cosmos in equations, they are translating mystery into grammar. The translation is elegant, but it is not the thing itself.
To claim that “the universe is mathematical” is to commit linguistic idolatry. Numbers describe patterns; they do not explain being. The formula E=mc² predicts the behavior of matter and energy—it does not tell us what matter or energy are. The certainty of mathematics is the certainty of definition, not of reality.
Einstein himself warned against this confusion: the moment mathematics becomes certain, it ceases to refer to the world. The moment it refers to the world, it ceases to be certain.
4. The Mirage of Empirical Authority
Modern physics and cosmology are cathedrals built on inference. Dark matter, dark energy, singularities, strings—none of these have been seen. They are invoked to preserve the internal coherence of equations that cannot account for observed phenomena. These invisible entities are not discoveries but placeholders for ignorance, named and worshipped as though naming made them real.
The irony is exquisite: in fleeing metaphysics, science reinvented it. It simply changed the vocabulary. Where theologians spoke of the divine, cosmologists now speak of the singularity; both point to something unobservable that explains everything else.
5. Consciousness: The One Fact That Cannot Be Denied
All observation presupposes an observer. Before there is data, there is awareness. Before there is theory, there is experience. To reduce consciousness to neural noise or quantum computation is to saw off the branch upon which knowledge sits.
Science studies phenomena within consciousness while pretending to stand outside it. But consciousness is the condition of the entire enterprise—the light by which all “facts” are seen. Without it, there is no experiment, no equation, no universe as such.
Thus, consciousness is not an afterthought of matter but its precondition. Every attempt to explain awareness as an emergent property of blind particles is a failure to recognize that “blind particles” are themselves ideas appearing in awareness.
6. The Human Element: Experts, Priests, and Pretenders
The “expert” class often claims to speak for reality itself, as though a PhD confers divine insight. Yet their authority rests on consensus, not revelation. Peer review replaces peer thinking; specialization rewards obedience over insight.
Academia has become a hierarchy of sanctioned ignorance—brilliant minds confined to narrow tunnels, mistaking the light at the end for the sun. Their jargon is a fortress built to defend not truth but prestige. To question them is to be labeled “unscientific,” a modern form of heresy.
But no title or theorem exempts a human from the same fleshly frailty that binds us all. Every calculation, every cosmological model, is written by a primate briefly conscious on a tiny planet, staring into an abyss and mistaking its own reflection for the infinite.
7. Conclusion: The Return to Wonder
Science is a method. Reality is an experience. To confuse the two is to turn curiosity into creed. The universe does not speak in equations; it speaks in being.
The humility proper to inquiry is not the arrogance of certainty but the recognition that the map will never become the territory. Our instruments may refine the contours of what is measurable, but the immeasurable remains—the mystery that births both observer and observation.
The task is not to abolish science, but to restore perspective: to remember that the finger pointing to the moon is not the moon, and that the most perfect formula will always fall short of describing the fact that anything exists at all.
Reality cannot be owned by a discipline, only encountered by a consciousness.
Bravo Betzold; for moving production back home (it is now harder to copy) and not giving into becoming a supplier. It's all about education.
Let's get back to the old internet and if google or else don't want it… Private groups where people share websites. Internet belongs to us all as it was always. Time to boycott and take a bit more time to search to take back control! ! !
Amazon doesn't see it's workers as human beings.
People need to wake up and stop living their lifes to buy stuff…… consumerism is killing our planet and our society too….. i have been a Minimalist myself for the last 10 years, and i can't recommend it enough……. i have more time and money now to enjoy things that really matter in life…….THINK ABOUT IT ✌
amazon is a good shopping place but i dont like them at all. maybe we should ban them in europe
Amazon is great! I buy from there all the time.