>Rob Reid is a podcaster, author, and tech investor, and was a long-time tech entrepreneur

Ah yeah, exactly who you should go to for bio-engineering advice

I'm actually quite curious about what you have heard regarding families before WWII.

Many of the stories I've heard are themes of struggle and survival.

Yep. With the teenagers pitching in not only for their own spending money, but also their families.

Sorry, I'm a bit naive in this area. How easy is it really for a Chinese vendor set up a shell company and build a fly-by-night business to compete with a legitimate seller who has to spend a considerable amount of money? Especially if they are only able to snipe a few sales away from the legitimate company before getting deleted?

As far as I understand, on Amazon you don’t have to compete with legitimate sellers anymore: many of them are simply gone.

If you are a legitimate seller, you want to be able to communicate with store representative. You want to be able to trust that the store wouldn’t suddenly pull the rug from under you without human contact. You don’t want your products to be displayed alongside fakes. It may be considered wiser not to engage with a store that lacks all of that.

Meanwhile, for a fly-by-night shady seller risk and uncertainty is par for the course, so they would remain and scout for new ways to game the system.

For those who do this at a scale, very easy, and they can snipe far from just a few sales.

It is a contract and is completely legal. A contract does not need to be "fair" to both sides, only "reasonable". There might be some argument that this contract is unconscionable, but that is a difficult battle, especially when one has so willingly given up their rights to their material. The court system was not designed to come running in to save individuals just because they have made a foolish deal.