Amazon's cloud business is competing with its own customers

Re:Amazon's cloud business is competing with its own customers by ianmcgowan on Sunday December 02, 2018 @05:25PM (#18584959)

I like money as much as the next person, but your statement could perhaps stop at "Capitalist are motivated with making money" and still be mostly true. The other parts are optional.

The function of government is to make sure those other parts happen - that the capitalist doesn't take the money and not provide the goods (the courts, the police) or provide goods in one place at a low price by dumping toxic shit in another hurting people (EPA), tell you lies and get you to invest in their firm (SEC) or a million other examples. The burden in burdensome regulations is in the eye of the beholder.

Also remember that (at least in a democracy) we are the government. If you don't like what they're doing, vote the bums out. It's a little harder to vote out the plutocrats.

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Re:Amazon's cloud business is competing with its own customers by scarface74 on Sunday December 02, 2018 @05:33PM (#18584995)

We are not a democracy. We are at best a Republic. A democracy would be one vote one voice. But in the Senate, there are two Senator for Wyoming (population 540,000) that have the same vote as the two Senators from California (population 39 million +). On top of that you have gerrymandering.

If you live in a populous city in a populous state your vote is worth much less than someone who lives in a rural city in a less populous state.

You’re also assuming as a fact that the court system and the police are not corrupt and can be trusted...

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