ancaprevolt on Nostr: Two weeks 🤯 Bro I ordered 3 cables at 4pm. One arrived at 8pm, the other two ...

Two weeks 🤯

Bro I ordered 3 cables at 4pm. One arrived at 8pm, the other two arrived at 6:30am the next day.

Very few things will take that long. Amazon has matured a lot. They are positioning themselves to replace regular shopping. As they should, its more efficient from a systems design perspective. There is a path for us to retain our freedom of movement.

I believe that if we reduced transportation costs by collectively investing in more efficient systems like Amazon and other shipping companies; investing in cheapened or free robotic transportation; and automation of driving jobs — we would not need to own reliable commuter cars any longer. We could, in theory, live in a world where we all have Lamborghinis (or whatever) that we only drive for fun, and for road trips, etc. The cost of owning such vehicles might even go down, and insurance costs could go down.

Imagine:
A crowd funded robotaxi fleet that is so dense that you can walk out to the sidewalk anywhere in the country, open an app and hail a taxi. The taxi arrives in under minute, you get in and set the destination. It bills you per meter using your connected LN wallet.

The taxi then navigates to your destination using robot only corridors that are separate from hybrid use roads. On robot only roads, the robotaxis drive at high speeds like 120mph, in very tight formations to increase safety. All of this is enabled by AI based technology. This type of thing might be seen within 80 years in places like LA, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle, as well as other countries.

In short, I think Amazon will lead to an improved future, and their services are extremely useful today. They are definitely predatory, and they reallyy try to get you to spend money, but if you can fight that temptation, I think it will save you a lot of time and money. That money can be used to socialize in more fun ways than going to the store, like you might be able to go to a restaurant instead.

It isn't quite mature enough to fully replace going to the store, but it will be. It just makes sense. Why have 100 people each spend 1–12 hours and gallons of gas shopping, when you can have 20–40 factory workers, and 1–4 drivers do all of it in like 18 hours total? You just need to have fulfillment centers that are stocked and treated like grocery stores, hardware stores, etc. At maturity, it will be fully integrated with Amazon Flex (like doordash for delivering Amazon packages), drones, and more localized distribution/fulfillment centers, enabling sub 60 minute deliveries — included with Prime, no doubt — all while using less labor and resources than if you went to the store yourself, even if you walked there.

Sorry for yapping, if you read all this shit. I recommend using ai to summarize it if you don't want to lmao