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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by max_ on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @02:51PM (#37664038)
Exactly, the purpose of capitalism is to serve the consumer not the competitors.
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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by wolverine876 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @04:14PM (#37665226)
The purpose is to serve the public, full stop (including consumers, employees, shareholders, other citizens). The mechanism is the free market, not capitalism, and the free market requires free competition.

Capitalism is one tool in the free market toolbox, and it works very well in many ways. One way this tool doesn't work well is that it leads to monopolies, which stifle competition, which hurts the people listed above.

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