Fwd: eToys dies slow, lingering, satisfying corporate death

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jan 5 07:44:17 PST 2001


Chuck0 wrote:


>U.K. website shut down, 60% of staff laid off! This is a major victory
>for anti-corporate activists.
>
>Kill all the dot-coms. Death to e-commerce.

Um, I'm not sure I get this. Yeah there was a lot of stupid shit about the dot.coms, and there's a lot that vulgar and destructive about capitalist commerce, but is electronic commerce itself intrinsically evil? I could imagine it playing a role in my democratically planned socialist utopia.

And since when do we cheer mass layoffs?

Doug



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