Maybe We Can’t LiveWithout Amazon

But we can change what we depend on it for

I say it a lot these days: Amazon is taking over the world.

We buy our gadgets from Amazon, our groceries — some might even say our news, if you count the fact that Amazon’s president and CEO, Jeff Bezos, also owns the nationally syndicated Washington Post. Soon, we may even buy our healthcare from this behemoth online retailer. Often, our dollars support Amazon in ways we aren’t even cognizant of.

Amazon’s influence isn’t hyperbolic…