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True enough Wayne, interstate e-commerce has a prominent place in todays market, but there's no substitute for touching/feeling a product before buying it.
Would you by a car without seeing it first hand? The only ones I would consider gambling on would be the Aptera or Carver which radically break the conventional.
What Danny Ocean is alluding to is quite scary for this paranoid moonbat:
Think of a futuristic consumer society where every purchase is bought through paperless credit (which can be destroyed with the flip of a "centralized switch"), then continuously tracked by RFID. Internet providers could also limit access to consumer product information websites on a discriminatory basis as well.
So... almost overnight the international consumer power of the average joe could be handed over to a few centralized corporations with the ability to completely control their lives. This really digs into the fundamentals of capitalistic democracy, which is based upon the freedom of choice. Duality or greater.
A centralized consumer system is also an overwhelming precident to a centralized governmental system. (Scared yet? Democrats may be at the helm someday.)
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