Re:The Amazon Empire Strikes Back
by danaris on Monday December 06, 2021 @09:05AM
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> There seems to be some selective amnesia about how great mom & pop businesses were.
This isn't about quality. It's about competition.
When Walmart or Amazon is an effective monopoly, even in a given region, they have massively outsized power to affect the way things are done there.
It doesn't matter if you're the best retailer in the world; that doesn't mean we, as a society do or should give you license to take over from every other retailer.
This isn't about quality. It's about competition.
When Walmart or Amazon is an effective monopoly, even in a given region, they have massively outsized power to affect the way things are done there.
It doesn't matter if you're the best retailer in the world; that doesn't mean we, as a society do or should give you license to take over from every other retailer.