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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by neycoda on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:15PM (#37668998)
The whole Amazon Basics thing, cannibalizing sellers, should be illegal. It just victimizes people trying to make a living in a crap job market where online sales are closing street shops.
Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by hellojesus on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @04:19PM (#37680690)
How does it victimize people?

Sellers are offering a generic product without barriers to entry like trademark, patents. Somebody else notices and contracts the same manufacturer to produce it or finds someone else who will (or makes it themselves). The new entrant sells it for cheaper.

All I see is basic economics. Business cannot stay afloat if their marginal cost exceeds marginal revenue. This is the best outcome for consumers.

Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by BizarroLand on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @04:58PM (#37681210)
Are business owners not people?
Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by hellojesus on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @05:07PM (#37681324)
Clearly I included one too many words:

How does it victimize?

Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by desert_rue on Thursday September 28, 2023 @03:53AM (#37686620)
The business takes a risk in developing and acquiring a product and Amazon uses the sales data and its platform to pick out winning products and undercut the price. The business is the victim.
Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by hellojesus on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:27PM (#37693630)
The business should protect their product with a patent or other trademark then. Nobody is forcing people to provide Amazon data by selling products on Amazon.

There is no victimhood if the business voluntarily transacts.