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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by hwillis on Friday March 08, 2019 @05:12PM (#19342716)
Only profits are taxed, and they're only vaguely related to revenue, and both profit and revenue are vaguely related to whether a company is a monopoly or not. Profit is an okay-ish measure of how much a monopoly a company is, but not great. Comcast and Amazon turn profits of ~10 billion. Apple is 60 billion, microsoft is 16 billion. Amazon is much more of a monopoly than either of those, and Comcast enjoys a much stronger natural monopoly as well. The industries are just different sizes and the supply/demand curves are different, and for some reason people are just super willing to pay an absurd premium for Apple products.

A progressive corporate tax still makes some sense, and there's basically no excuse for their taxes being less simple than a citizen's. However active management is still required. Markets are fast and efficient but they are often dumb.

Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by mrep on Saturday March 09, 2019 @05:23PM (#19348894)
> Amazon is much more of a monopoly than either of those

In what market are they a monopoly? Seriously. Amazon retail competes with walmart and target both of which offer online sales and AWS competes heavily with Azure and Google cloud. In what way is Amazon a monopoly?