Re:Amazon Is a Monopoly
by Nasrudith on Monday August 05, 2019 @06:12PM
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If sub-divided into how they do it perhaps? One would be "things that anyone with enough scale and willingness to take low margins could technically
do" as opposed "things that serve only to lock out competition".
For the later if there is a proprietary format on something major and it shuts out competition for no benefit like say "screws only they manufacture and cannot easily take other standards" that would be "anti-competitive" as it does nothing to compete better.
For the previous say "better infastructure to lower per unit cost" and producing at an industry standard percentage profit margin could be called hypercompetitive as it does nothing to stop those with sufficient capital from scaling up.
In practice however both are classically anti-competitive. The later would by definition reduce the number of potential competitors to those with more resources.
There could be some arguements about how they are relatively bad they are and should be treated. Even if both should be "illegal" they are two different types like say arson and murder.
For the later if there is a proprietary format on something major and it shuts out competition for no benefit like say "screws only they manufacture and cannot easily take other standards" that would be "anti-competitive" as it does nothing to compete better.
For the previous say "better infastructure to lower per unit cost" and producing at an industry standard percentage profit margin could be called hypercompetitive as it does nothing to stop those with sufficient capital from scaling up.
In practice however both are classically anti-competitive. The later would by definition reduce the number of potential competitors to those with more resources.
There could be some arguements about how they are relatively bad they are and should be treated. Even if both should be "illegal" they are two different types like say arson and murder.