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Yes, I define the long term goal to be attending university and take it backwards from there. I would like to avoid the kid moving nations at age 18 to attend a university abroad.

The parallel is that I am aiming at something below excellence and how the world is changing.I think the paths of the past are npt necessarily as rigid any more, some things have changed and fully copying others success paths does not guarantee results, there should be some flexibility I think.

Looking back at the way its changed since I finished education, things are changing slow, only Covid made an artificial push forcing companies to start accepting remote intverviews from a to z and remote work.

I am having this issue now, the kid is getting into phase where we need to make a decision about languages and schools etc.

Currently, we are in Spain, the salaries we have are very good for here, but the economy is the worst in the EU by far, docs and lawyers earn barely more than 2300 Euro net after graduating, I really like Spain, but perhaps the kids chances for the future would be severly inhibited going to school here. We are solid upper middle class here.

The other option would be Switzerland, but we would be lower middle class or worse there. Switzerland does have what I think is the best education system, with some caveats, its very competitive and if youre slow, youll be delegated into a low performer segment which will prevent you from attending faculty(you can qualify for this later). University cost is cheap, actually, even at the renomated ETH Zurich.

The 3rd option would be Colombia, there we would be top tier class and the kid would have a privileged upbringing and education. The country is a bit dangerous and a private university costs more than the ETH. Jobs are scarce in Colombia, many people with masters and doctorates can be without a job for months or years and the pay is worse than Spain. Many dentists and such leave for Europe only to work in a fish fabric or some other no skill job.

4th option is UK, I only like London there, but it is definitelly too dear and we would get the worst bang for the buck, so to say. I consider the UK education as fantastic, if you make it to university.

I have lived and worked in all the places and I wonder if 15 to 20 years from now most jobs will be remote, or at least accessible to most.

Any feedback and input from you people would be greatly appreciated.

I do not want to make the kid exceptional, unconditional love and best possible upbringing is my goal.

Exceptional kids often come at a very heavy price.

This is a legitimate question, most likely the hordes of legal and compliance have ensured its "legal".

They offer the refund remedy, but i suspect(actually, I am sure, I have worked in banking and fintech before) that is to prevent chargebacks.

It is surprising how many chargebacks are mitigated this way, if any merchant, even Amazon, gets hit by too many chargebacks, the acquirer will shut them down if heavy penalties are no remedy.

But knowing Amazons order volumes, it is probably still too lucrative for the acquirers to sack Amazon as a merchant.

Amazon should do something about it, you have a good point, they are good at shuffling liability, the concept is one of a kind, but they should apply the same to product integrity and QA.

Someone somewhere is seeing the numbers and has not seen a need to intervene on the matter yet. I am sure you remember the tree charts of teams, all starting and leading to the c level, right?

Its either c level or the c level reports making these decisions.

I think removing comingling and strictly banning the infringing accounts upon first report should solve this issue 99%. Block, hold the funds, review and make a final decision. I would not tolerate mislabeled storage devices or fakes.

For example, there have been aldo shoes for impossible prices on there, I think Aldo choses not to sell on Amazon, so it might take a while before someone realizes that. Usually the system detects such things quite well, if a company has a brand and a patent, they are supper protected on amazon, for example selling boots looking anything like the docs and mertens brand will get shut down fast and efficiently. Maybe some brands are more protected than others, I do not know.

This is indeed a remarkable number, I read 30m millionaires some place else.

Do they count stocks which are held but not cashed out and do they count houses which are subject to mortgages?

If no, then that is a truly impressive number, I think even Switzerland does not come close by percentage.

Ah, nice to see someone with insights to the inside:-)

Hi there, nice meeting you. Yes, as a dev, it will be hard to push feature requests, I have realized this much, the whole query tools and seller central are rigid and ther are few changes. It is probably very hard to get features approved because there are many stakeholders involved etc.

There is indeed a massive segregation between the teams, the only correspondence is via the ticketing system and sometimes dms via Chime, which happens rather slow, if at all. Now, it depends who you mean by customers, Amazon does not consider the end buyers as first class customers, their customers are the sellers. I know what you mean by some "rogue" teams, without naming any by name, but it is core departments. There exist some parallel departments, like literally doing the same tasks, but by different procedures, as many teams develop their own procedures(for example the vat teams did everything from scratch and even the andon advisors struggle to follow on that). I have seen it happen, teams doing the very same tasks, but in totally different ways, neither is wrong, but it does cause confusion, usually its the older teams not catching up with new developments, from what I have seen. The "SOPs" are more applied on a global level rather than on a team layer.

I am not sure if the US market is different than Europe and Uk, it could be, I never had access to US SC. I do not shop online often, maybe 10 times in 10 years, most of it via Amazon, simply because I get from them what I order and very fast. Any other platform I had tried I regretred very fast.

Or lets ask it this way? How could amazon ensure that all the products are legit before they are being delivered? I am aware of comingling, which can be disabled afaik. But its impossible to check every item before its shipped and if its seller fullfilled orders, there is no way either. I wouldnt know how to improve that other than shutting a sellers account down upon first report, which then leaves you open to false claims by competitors etc. For example, if you want to hurt a competitor, you could just publish many fake 5 star(not 1 star) product reviews in an unreasonably short time(higher than usual frequency) and that will likely be the death knell for the review feature, it would be disabled.

Of course, I have also seen dog collars falsly being flagged as baby toys and the AI findig ridiculous dead end path for case handling and the translation bots having impeccable, even most eloquent language skills, but the conrent being way off. Sometimes these bots get the "needs no human review" approval, when they are not ready for business.

And dont get me started on the "outsourcers":-)

From what I have seen, most dev work is thrown at SC and the various ASIN back offices for the catalogue content. Seen some rather bad db queries for the oracle instances and shared workbook usage where you rather shouldnt make that choice etc. But the website front end gets the least "love".

I should habe qualified my statements with "as far I am aware".

Tax on the stock vesting(vesting is generous but taxed at 50%) and a disupte about the location for remote work made me look somewhere else.

I have to say the working hours are very nice if you are l4-l6, so is the compensation and all you have to do is clock in and out on the second(no joke, even too early can lead to penalties) and if you are proactive with feature improvements and not shy to do presentations, your promotion will be activelly pushed. Even if you want to change departments entirelly, there will be no hard feelings, you can announce that without hesitation. You can go to l4 from l3, as l4 is where the vesting starts. And no need to be the superstar as far performance goes, just dont be last. If you are last, youre still safe from a sack and a pip does not really happen, theres always someone to help, aka nesting team or something. If you dont perform, its on them. Pick people for help as early as possible and you will be golden.

Of course there are some rather annoying people there too, some even seem to have an allergy to work, but all in all, its bright folks and a good environment.

Once you habe been there as l3, l4 or higher, due to the rather steep initial learning curve(all paid and well designed, even later on, you can chose upskilling, also all paid), you are always welcome back, believe me that, I best not go into details.

I might go back some day, I think it is the best option if you feel like working in a big corporation for a while.

I have accepted an offer from a startup paying much better for the time being, but I always keep Amazing in the back of my mind.

Keep in mind this only applies for l3 to l6, I cant speak for the rest, but once youve been there, you will see why they always welcome people back, the onboarding cost and training for the first few months are vast. I always felt sorry if someone out of amazon would be hired for something like fba dept manager. But yes, seen many people have a one year break without a promise of going back which just felt like they wanna be a stewardess on planes for a while.

Also, this was in Europe, where many employment laws have to be followed to the t.

I would give them a try anyehere in the world, learned a lot there, including how to create procedures for things which have none, theres some pretty important things you can start from scratch, be the creator. They call it taking ownership, which is always rewarded, even if it takes you a month. You get these accolodates and stars and things.

This is why I said leave bad reviews on the seller, not the item. You can report brand infringement.

Often, you might need an account or a seller account, this could be improved indeed, however, whats available:

Amazon.com https://www.amazon.com › report Report Infringement

https://www.redpoints.com/blog/report-infringement-amazon/

https://www.redpoints.com/blog/remove-counterfeit-amazon/

Going to customer service will not lead anywhere usually, it needs to end up with the dedicated team.

As a former Amazonian who has worked on vat, compliance, taxes, product compliance etc, I can tell you, really from an unbiased perspective that Amazon is doing everything they can to terminate the bad actors.

This includes the fake reviews etc. Lets say you have a charger for iphones, you cant have text for the ASIN saying for iphone, it will get delisted immediatelly, you have to say "compatible with iphone" and such.

The main weakness is how products are created, the catalogue principle, this allows some to fly under the radar for a bit sometimes. And Amazon will not immediatelly shut down a whole sellers account, but rather target ASINs one by one. The best way for a buyer to deal with this is to leave a sellers(not product) review and ask for a refund, you will always get the refund, Amazon always pushes liability to the sellers in order to protect the brand image and to not be exploitable. Once theres enough of reviews and refunds, the sellers will get shut down and the funds will be held on hold, just like a banl does for credit card processors. The cost to do business on amazon with fakes repeatedly(need new companies every time etc) is quite high, if not prohibitivelly high. Do not suck it up, do the 2 things mentioned to keep the place tidy.

Logistics and order destination and they will work 247, give or take.

There is quite some overhead if you have to schedule all the pick ups and update the order and shipping status. They have all this automated and they have warehouses strategically located everywhere.

This is something that many of the chinese sellers still do not use. They are relatively new and inexperienced, they struggle to do the corporate onboarding paperwork etc. They will get around, though, some have improved fast.

Yes, you need to "earn the dues" before they enable that, I think its for good reasons, they protect the product and I would not advise a newcomer to even try prime FBS if they habe a certain volume and a very professional infrastructure is needed.

They have very protective rules for sellers who sell jewlery and such, too.

Former Amazonian here, great company and all that, I enjoyed it.

I felt I can provide data here, FBA is not the end of the road, there are more levels so to say, FBA and prime etc.

Now, FBA has some potential pitfalls.

- VAT, Amazon will often store in a country where its most economical for them, ie, for German sellers, there will be a warehouse just after the Polish border etc. They will do this unless you explicitly disable this. This leads to very complicated VAT fillings and correction

- Lost, stolen, damaged cargo. If your merchandise gets damaged or stolen etc, its not so easy to get new storage space allocated/assigned.

- Recalls, if your ASIN is subject to a recall, god help you, if you use amazon, you will have penalty points on the account health page, affecting many other things. All and and FBA ASINs affected , whether youre selling it or someone else need to be removed. The recall is only finished after that. And youre paying for the storage or recovery or disposal.

- Shipping confirmation. You are supposed to inform about any package and order status very soon after the order is placed. Same for tracking status. Now, sometimes the Amazon api for that is buggy and you get heavy markdowns on account health even though you provide the data, just the feed dont work.

Still, when its all said and done, Amazon offers the best product and logistics if you just want to sell your product.

There is no way any competitor can offer the same quality at a better price.

Keep in mind, whatever the percentage is, the ecommerce business has a margin in the single digits, all of Amazon is subsidised by the money making machine AWS.

I agree fully, I am struggling to imagine how they can go and push such a legislature infront of this governing body with a straight face.

This is more dangerous than most people would think, once something like this is codified into law, many eu countries will follow suit, just for good measure.

What are the motives and who benefits from this? This idea was born somewhere and writing all the drafts costs a lot of money, who was footing this bill and why?

Yes, I have read about the UDBA, they would follow opposition to abroad to kill them.

And the fallout after Yugoslavia fell apart had the same people and criminals unpunished, with the climax of a broad daylight execution of a prime minister.

Wow,I do believe that with the tickets but it is "unbelievable" as in "unfassbar".

It is more than just gross pay, though.

Health insurance, paid holidays, sick days paid, the unemployment benefits are vastly superior.

This is a comprehensive and unbiased overview, I think

https://russianvagabond.com/european-vs-us-salaries-why-you-...

You give them too much credit, I am afraid.

I was in 2 tv interviews so far and both of them have released footage that totally and entirelly distorted the message to an infuriating degree. This was in a top tier European country, once state tv , once a major private station.

Do not trust them blindly is all I can say.

But Jimmy Hoffa is long gone.

If you look at the broader spectrum and compare US workers rights with most of the EU, Europes fight was worth it and these have been gained by literally dying for the cause before unions appeared. It has gone overboard in places like Italy, but the workers right certainly did not and would have never come from the employers.

The world is not the same everywhere.

Correct me if I am wrong, but this is attributed to Jefferson:

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers"

Makes you wonder who remains to be trusted, the governments are not reliable at all times either in most parts of the world.

True, I equate privacy and freedom, give or take.

Anyone who ever end up an their radar would probably never be removed from that,and never even know.

It is highly offensive that the German government pretends it does not know where the crime is happening. How about they deal with a few of these clans numbering 100s of people? This can be done , has to be done the convential way, as these clans will not be as stupid as leave digital traces, as computer illeterate as they might be.

The government has not even defined who they are targeting, they just use the commonly thrown around terms.

I speak German and I have just read the text, it is vastly complicated court and lawyer speak.

But it is clear that this legislature is pushing for crime prevention based on aggregated data from computer systems(where from, exactly?)

The arguments are that a manual extraction and collection would be too slow and that this should be limited to only a handful of severe potential crimes. As a prevention rather than mitigation technique.

This is quite bad.

Now the objection is not purely because the data is coming from computers, but because it will reveal data on people tangentially connected to the targets.

This is so wrong in so many ways and the people who are pushing from this have learned nothing from the stasi and nazi regimes, or perhaps they are nostalgic.

It is very clear that these things are pushed by rather smart minds, matter experts and this makes it clear they do not care about the innocent peoples privacy, as they could not possibly be so ignorant to overlook this matter.

Justice even the conventianal way spawns injustices, now the lazy government wants to automate and scale their procedures. W.t.h.

Cloudflare ddos mitigation is overrated. First they force you to upgrade your plan, if that does not help, anotyer upgrade, if that fails, chances are you will get a termination notice.

They would need a recent proof of address to know where you live.

I know, it is stupid and there are so many ways to fake this, but a bank cant possibly gibe a loan to someone without knowing where they live.

Else kim jong il could just walk in with his id etcetc.

Usually, it is all deposits minus all withdrawals are refunded. The casino will be in the red here, due to provider costs.

Its well defined laws and aml directives, there is little ambiguity but those are the laws our dear politicians have passed.

It does not really work like that and the bank rarely gets to keep that money. If the SOW is not sufficiently established, the funds are either sent back to the origin of the funds or a SAR is filed, where another regulatory body will decide about the next steps. In any case, the custodian bank does not make anything from doing this.

The intent does not even matter long term.

The danger is an oportunist individual or group taking advantage of the thing.

Let us play fantasyland and we assume there is one day a pill that feeds you for a day, tastes better than any food, makes you full and beats obesity.

Do you think the ownership of that would not be fiercly fought about and the development should be kept secret?

If it is not secret, anyone could just steal that revolutionary idea.

I think you are wrong here and right.

There is no conspiracy, it has all already happened.

Maybe not on a global scope, but have you heard of the "stasi"?

Any political party can conspire to enforce something against the voter base that is not represented, pretty much any time.

The saying "knowledge is power" and 1984 and such havent been there for no reason.

People have written conspiracy theories about rfid chips, they have been ridiculous and what could these have given away other than location data and body temperature? Meanwhile, everyone has a mobile phone and a pc and smart devices which are phoning home sending the data to be sold to the highest bidder.

There have been terrible people in power on this planet and their paths should be full of obstacles.

Ask the people who suffered under pinochet, stasi and countless african dictators.

Better to not hand anyone the full infrastructure for absolute power and control if it can be prevented.

Nuclear codes and production secrets are not visible on youtube, and I think medical data, bank accounts, browsing history and docs on pcs should not be subject to preemptive surveillance.

If there are issues with child pornography, we have police forces for that, by all means, go for them.

If there is a terrorist problem, we have armies to sort them out, by all means, go for it.

It will never be able to detect sarcasm amd satire and this will contribute greatly to the degradation of content quality , I think.

This will not work, its too soon.

Can someone say if this is good or bad and for whom? Curious European wants to understand.