[caption id=“attachment_6182” align=“aligncenter” width=“500”] Best Selling Jeryk - weird Amazon Typo[/caption]

Especially because I would expect this to just be automated. Someone at Amazon decides to put jerky on sale, it should auto-generate the email title. It should NOT be written by a human that could end up with a weird typo like this!

Dear Amazon and Valve,

I write this to you because you are the largest and most powerful companies in your ecosystems.  The digital world has become ridiculous and you need to be leaders in rectifying the situation.  Let’s start with Amazon.  The two biggest digital things you sell are books and music.  Back in the analog world before commerce became a Wonderland distortion, if I bought a book or CD, any member in my household could access this item.  It didn’t matter if I bought the book or my wife bought the book.  We could both read it.  The same went with a CD.  Either of us could grab the CD off the shelf and put it into our portable CD player.  But now go to the Kindle (or any other e-reader system) and Amazon CloudPlayer.  Sure, either of us could pick up the e-reader to read a book.  But what if we both want to read a different book at the same time.  How can we access each other’s libraries?  What about if we each want to listen to the same music library from Amazon CloudPlayer on our smart phones or other devices?  For various reasons, like Amazon recommendations, it makes sense for us to have different accounts instead of a family account.

There’s a new system of exchange of goods and services that threatens to rock the economic system and it’s not some new form of derivatives. Digital goods and services are growing larger and larger, but economics has not yet caught up. This is scary because more and more of our economy is based upon digital goods. In order to understand why I’m raising a fuss about this, we have to do a quick review of economics 101.