Re:Amazon Jumps into Freight Brokerage
by chrisseaton on Friday May 17, 2019 @05:16PM
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If you’re making custom laws to deliberately target specific businesses you don’t like then that’s a red flag your new law is abusive.
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Businesses exist at and only at the sufferance of the society that grants that charter and need only be permitted to exist so long as there is positive social benefit to their existence. One cannot "abuse" a business by requiring them to properly hold up their end of the bargain.
We have mostly forgotten--to our detriment as societies around the world--that businesses exist to serve the collective us of citizenry and society. Not the other way around.
Re:Amazon Jumps into Freight Brokerage
by jorblumesea on Friday May 17, 2019 @05:24PM
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This has nothing to do with specific businesses, just the size and scale that businesses are reaching now. This has nothing to do with Amazon, they are just an elegant example of a broken system.
Corporations that have serious soft power but have broken no laws should cause us to ask deep questions about what it means to be "anti trust" in the 21st century. The consumer welfare framework is a weak and ineffective framework for today's modern corporations.