Amazon isn’t a store, not really. Not in any sense that we can regularly think about stores. It’s a strange pulsing network of potential goods, global supply chains, and alien associative algorithms with the skin of a store stretched over it, so we don’t lose our minds.
Following the chain, I came across:
The motive of the algorithm is still unclear.
Source, with the addition later of 'expect to read a lot of sentences like this in coming years.'
Another monthly installment of the rationality quotes thread. The usual rules apply: