1. I doubt errors of this magnitude are tolerated for long when the financial beneficiary of the error is not Amazon, and if I'm correct in this, a systematic selection pressure of this kind is indistinguishable from greed in this context
2. I am no less uncomfortable with monopolistic publishers who exploit creators out of incompetence after becoming the only game in town and making any ability to walk away from negotiations with them a Hobson's choice at best than I am with ones where all of that is true except the harm is due to greed/malice instead
3. Corporations aren't people and even if you believe (as I don't) that they can meaningfully have intentions in the same sense that people do, those intentions do not matter in a context where the behavior is on the scale of an organization, and so separating incompetence from malice is a distraction in the first place
2. I am no less uncomfortable with monopolistic publishers who exploit creators out of incompetence after becoming the only game in town and making any ability to walk away from negotiations with them a Hobson's choice at best than I am with ones where all of that is true except the harm is due to greed/malice instead
3. Corporations aren't people and even if you believe (as I don't) that they can meaningfully have intentions in the same sense that people do, those intentions do not matter in a context where the behavior is on the scale of an organization, and so separating incompetence from malice is a distraction in the first place