Paul Krugman

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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

In the case of Roundup, one person who had some stuff to sell figured out that there was money to be made in prepping other people's stuff for Amazon; friends and neighbors got into the business; and now there's a novel sort of industrial cluster 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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When I was writing about this stuff, I loved to linger on the stories about how industrial clusters came into being — often as the result of seemingly trivial events. For example, the carpet center of Dalton GA originated in a tufted bedspread 2/ https://t.co/243wIGqMcW — PolitiTweet.org

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One other lesson of this story is that Amazon only looks like an ethereal enterprise, living in cyberspace and untouched by human hands. In fact its business depends on a huge distribution workforce, with a lot of bricks-and-mortar capital 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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