On: Amazon Doesn’t Consider the Race of Its Customers. Should It?

[flashman]

Hmm. Amazon puts a few pennies extra onto my items, and poor communities get access to a service that's much cheaper than shopping at a convenience store? Freeing up their capital to spend elsewhere in the economy, like on products and services my company offers?

Where do I sign up?

[Snargorf → flashman]

Great! Hey lusen - you've got a guy here willing to pay a few pennies to the social justice virtue signaling fund!

This guy really puts his money where is mouth is!

Just find a billion more people at his level of commitment and you'll be golden.

[flashman → Snargorf]

Sarcasm aside, what's a few pennies per sale on $105bn in sales?

[jasonpeacock → flashman]

Because Amazon's profit is only a few pennies per sale.

You're basically asking Amazon to double their profit margin by raising prices, and then give away half of it to fix social injustice?

[ajkjk → flashman]

A huge percentage (perhaps the entirety?) of their margins?