> the smartest move

interesting definition of "smart" you're using

"smart" =/= "moral" in all instances. "Smart Decisions" are especially subjective.

Sure, but in this case "smart" may also != "legal". Breach of fiduciary duty would seem to come into play, especially after an IPO when activist shareholders may rise up and make a stink about it.

The devil usually knows a thing or two about what they speak of.

Are you trying to agree or to say that the parent commenter doesn't know what they're talking about? Or maybe to make some kind of religious statement?

I don't think that focus or attention is equivalent to consciousness. Subconscious != unconscious != no consciousness

I have mild tinnitus and am 90% certain it came from my summers growing up and mowing lawns with shitty earbuds cranking shitty rock music off a shitty “skip proof” CD player Walkman kinda thing

Wish I had ever even considered that might not be good for me

Almost definitely not the case. My product had the badge for awhile and our whole category is too small to warrant Amazon’s attention.

Nobody has full described what's going on, so let me try. There are four categories of things sold on Amazon:

- A) Amazon house brands

- B) Amazon retail

- C) 3rd party seller, fulfilled by Amazon (FBA)

- D) 3rd party seller, fulfilled by Merchant (FBM)

Amazon house brands are the things like Amazon Basics, or a host of other brands that are owned by them even though they're not explicitly labeled as such. Retail is the traditional retail model described by last user, Amazon buys inventory from other companies and then handles sales & fulfillment. FBA is sort of the consignment model, where Amazon doesn't own the inventory but they handle fulfillment. FBM is basically the Ebay model - Amazon is just facilitating the marketplace, taking customer payment etc, but the merchant is responsible for shipping/logistics.

They're going to scale back the number of companies they buy from for retail (B), and those companies will have to use C or D or stop selling on Amazon altogether.

Interestingly, those companies could also switch to A: offer their services as a white-label manufacturer for Amazon to produce goods in that same vertical they were previously retailing in.

Not sure how you’re defining formal, but the typical route is basically an apprentice model. Find a practicing shaman and work with them.

Treatment that is 100% effective when properly administered but has a 5% chance at being properly administered is still not a very good treatment. These two routes are not mutually exclusive.

The reality is that they’re currently out of reach for most people, and the only shot at increasing adoption comes with legally sanctioned institutions to help deploy them safely.

But you do want to point out to strangers that you’re above sharing your photos.

It’s easy to be super cynical about everyone’s motivations, and it’s turtles (or signaling) all the way down