If it strikes them down ...

Amazon did shut them down but they did manage to sell some of their inventory. According to the article they still have plenty left to unload just no online out will allow it at the prices they are asking. Like I said humans appear able to rationalize anything.

@silverotter11 Well we all were taught that making a profit at another's expense was a good thing to do.

@rogerbenham I wasn't but then I was not one of the elite rich.

@silverotter11 But surely you were at least told that the American Dream was to turn from poverty into a millionaire. My dad taught me to try to do well but not to step on others' toes or cheat. I found in business I had to be involved in hiring and firing so after 4 years I quit.

@rogerbenham No actually my dad had issues with capitlism or I should say unbridled capitalism. He thought the ideas of communism where fine but knew human nature made it impossibly workable. Demoratic Socialism was workable to him and he loathed reagan's union busting. Human's disappointed him . I miss his humor.

@silverotter11 I would have had long conversations with your dad. He was right. The union busting was a terrible moment setting the path to today's oligarchy. My dad was managing director of our multinational kitchen equipment firm which was taken over in 1960. I asked him once how many people he had fired and he said only one and 10 or 20 years later the fellow came to haunt them at some occasion. when he announced that the family were leaving the company several long employees wept. He always voted Labour because he said one should vote not for oneself but for the good of the nation. We lived surrounded by wealthy people but mixed hardly at all with them. I suspect they regarded my father as being very strange not voting conservative.