The year is 1999 (1st grade 😂)I’m living a nice and wholesome life.
I wake up every morning without setting any alarm and do what I love all day long.
But I’m still pissed off that I joined a revolution that never happened.
Everything we used to say that would happen with the internet went down the drain.
Amazon? It’s just an online bookstore now.
It didn’t progress toward replacing brick-and-mortar retail like we imagined.
It didn’t progress technically to give power to the small sellers and dreamers of the world.
Outside of selling a few books, there’s nothing that it does that Barnes & Noble or Walmart.com can’t do better.
It doesn’t have a killer use case anymore.
The website is clunky. The user experience sucks compared to local shopping.
All we have is hope that maybe someday this company will turn a profit.
But even the early evangelists who joined for ideological reasons seem to be cashing out or moving on.
So who’s left to defend the original vision? The one where the internet was going to be a great equalizer?
Who still wants to decentralize commerce when the VCs and hedge funds are now calling the shots?
I don’t even see my friends at tech meetups anymore. They either became bland corporate guys or just left the space altogether.
It’s depressing, really. This is not what many of us signed up for. I feel deceived.
I spent years promoting Amazon as part of the internet revolution. But now I feel like a fraud.
Customers? They still go to Best Buy.
Sellers? They still can’t make a living on Amazon’s platform if they can even get visibility.
Maybe someday we’ll see innovation again. Let Bezos build something beyond books. Maybe a marketplace. Maybe cloud computing. Maybe something.
But no. There’s no consensus. Just losses and layoffs.
This captures how easy it is to feel betrayed during a period of stagnation but also how shortsighted that bitterness can be.
Like Amazon then, Bitcoin today is in its awkward teenage years, misunderstood and underestimated and possibly right before its next transformation.
Some people are just not cut out for the journey. We continue to ride (no longer on busted mopeds) HODL (nprofile…zae5) ODELL (nprofile…lnue)
ryanjordan
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2025-08-04 21:17:16 UTC
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