>I would say that Amazon itself is also a "become monopoly - then jack up prices" play I think this is an important misconception. Amazon, Uber, Lyft, Grubhub,

>I would say that Amazon itself is also a "become monopoly - then jack up prices" play I think this is an important misconception. Amazon, Uber, Lyft, Grubhub, and pretty much the entire on-demand economy doesn't intend to raise prices. They expect technology to reduce costs while they keep prices fixed. The details aren't even important, but there's a consensus out there that transportation is going to _somehow_ get a lot cheaper. The two main driving forces seem to be self driving vehicles (duh) and electric vehicles. EVs are expensive luxuries/green tech now, but as the battery costs keep dropping you'll soon have extraordinarily low maintenance, cheap to run vehicles that are way more efficient than internal combustion in the low speed, stop and go regime of delivery driving. That's how I've always seen these markets anyway. It just doesn't make sense for the plan to be "monopolize then exploit" - short of hardcore regulatory capture or something that seems too transparently flawed to attract so much effort and investment.