Re:Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B
by mindcrime on Friday June 16, 2017 @04:56PM
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Amazon is simply too much - time for the monopoly-busters to break them apart.
What exactly does Amazon have a monopoly on?
Selling books? Nope, Barnes & Noble and Walmart and others compete there.
Cloud computing? Nope, check Google, Microsoft, IBM, Racksapce, Linode, etc.
Selling other random stuff on the net? No, Target, Walmart and a bazillion specialty sites also do that.
Groceries? Obviously not.
The idea behind anti-trust / monopoly law is generally to prevent a company from leveraging a monopoly in one area to gain excessive control in another area. I don't see how anyone can argue that Amazon are doing anything like that.
Being big and successful is not, in and of itself, wrong.
What exactly does Amazon have a monopoly on?
Selling books? Nope, Barnes & Noble and Walmart and others compete there.
Cloud computing? Nope, check Google, Microsoft, IBM, Racksapce, Linode, etc.
Selling other random stuff on the net? No, Target, Walmart and a bazillion specialty sites also do that.
Groceries? Obviously not.
The idea behind anti-trust / monopoly law is generally to prevent a company from leveraging a monopoly in one area to gain excessive control in another area. I don't see how anyone can argue that Amazon are doing anything like that.
Being big and successful is not, in and of itself, wrong.