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I was under the assumption that the same cheap Chinese plastic constitutes everything on Amazon, Walmart, Target, any big box store, and non-food items in grocery stores. The same cheap Chinese plastic is in competition with itself on Amazon by people with different brand names. Then you get the consumer to sign up on your email list where you sell ads for other pieces of cheap plastic and LLM as a service products. When that succeeds you can reveal your methods in online classes.
In that sense I didn't think much of dropshipping as moral depravity. I put it in the same category as gambling - something that wouldn't really be there in a healthier society. And in fact that conceptualization helped guide me to a place where I can find the beauty of doing honest work for honest pay in a walkable city in the presence of justice.
Wish there was honest work and walkable city lol. Huh never thought of it in the same vein, seeing how desperate for more money some of them are, adds up