They're building a terrifyingly thorough, 1984-like surveillance network and actively pursuing govt contracts to use it for law enforcement.
If you want to create a weapon that could be used to control a populace quickly, it would look a lot more like this (and autonomous drones) than it would a human army.
A huge fear of mine is in 20 years the competitive landscape is so homogeneous that I won’t even have that luxury.
You can get 2-day or same-day shipping from them now, and you can return directly to their store. They don't do inventory comingling, so you don't have to worry about things like getting bed bugs from sheets you buy or counterfeits.
You do lose the massive AliExpress-like selection of nonsense-branded Chinese products that Amazon has, but I find that I don't miss those.
The amazon marketplace is filled with scams and counterfeits.
I would rather pay a little more and get the product from a trusted source, or just go to a local store and buy it.