Amazon Has Transformed the Hasidic Economy
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Amazon Has Transformed the Hasidic Economy
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#2Buzz Feed News (yes!) covered this same story with much more sensitivity several weeks ago.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/leticiamiranda/amazon-o...
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#3article is behind paywall
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#4About 6 years ago I ordered a tv on Amazon, it was going to be shipped out and delivered in about a week.
About an hour later I got a phone a call with a thick accented voice – "John, John, are you home?"
"Who is this?"
"I got your TV, we can come over right now."
Sure enough they pulled up with their van and I got my TV about two hours after I ordered. Unknown to me I had ordered it from a Hasidic run company just down the street from my home in Brooklyn.
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#5Buzz Feed News (yes!) covered this same story with much more sensitivity several weeks ago. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/leticiamiranda/amazon-o...
And fast company did this story back in 2013
https://www.fastcompany.com/3021229/chaim-pikarski-the-amazo...
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#6People making a business selling on Amazon.. If you left out the religion, would this be a story?
Is the point to get NYT and BuzzFeed clicks? Is it to get more attendance at the 'how you can get rich selling on Amazon' conferences? For better or worse, is it to show how a certain demographic is making a lot of money?
I'm not a fan of these articles..
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#7Does the Hasidic community have any advantages in the reseller market? With some of their traditional businesses, such as the diamond trade they do: evaluating gems, connections for sourcing stones, etc.
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#8article is behind paywall
Seems like an unusually large percentage of posts on Hacker News are behind paywalls, some soft, some hard, some with a maximum free articles per time-unit. I peruse most of the top stories daily and can't read a good number of them making me have to just read the comments to get a sense of the article. It is seriously annoying. I wish there was some kind of flair or warning on these posts.
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#9I think there’s something about knowing you need to care for a large family (e.g. a member of a religion that values having lots of kids) that is motivating for entrepreneurs in a way I don’t always hear about e.g. entrepreneurial tendencies among Hasidic Jews and Mormons
Re: Amazon Has Transformed the Hasidic Economy
#10People making a business selling on Amazon.. If you left out the religion, would this be a story? Is the point to get NYT and BuzzFeed clicks? Is it to get more attendance at the 'how you can get rich selling on Amazon' conferences? For better or worse, is it to show how a certain demographic is making a lot of money? I'm not a fan of these articles..
It’s interesting that a extremely disproportionate number of Orthodox Jews sell on Amazon. The mesh (as opposed to clash) of religion and modern technology and culture makes the article meaningful.