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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scribe" data-source="post: 8828573" data-attributes="member: 6807152">I'm sorry, but I do not expect people to be able to change the tide here.My wife received a package from Amazon today, you know how it goes. Its very convenient, and when she couldnt find what she needed local, its shipped in a day or 2, which in and of itself, is madness.So she opens the box, pissed off, it was a small item, the box was huge in comparison, and empty otherwise. A total waste. I thought on it for a moment after agreeing that it was stupid.This small item was shipped out of a warehouse, this warehouse is hours by car, and HOURS by ferry, away from me. I know where it is. This box took up considerably more space than it needed, meaning less could be shipped, than potentially, and then X amount of fossil fuel was consumed in the delivery. This is waste, heaped on waste, heaped on pollution, for convenience that is killing local stores, mom and pop's, whatever, and we shop local, farm's, markets, all that, as much as we can.Amazon is a mega-corp, and will only grow, as will Elon's empire, and the various other capitalist firms that actually pull the strings of our world behind the scenes as we all burn up our time on forums, social media, games, and work. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Anyway.I did a deeper dive on this whole Magic thing tonight, and honestly, its probably not the end of the world. Its going to be a shift in how Magic is delivered, and its going to feed into that killing of the local shops, the mom and pop stores, the places where you know "the Gathering" happened, but the game will be fine, Hasbro's stock will rebound, and some snakes will make a bit of $ in flipping some stocks around.I dont think the suits are THAT stupid to kill the golden goose.</blockquote>

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