edit: ha! your edit nails it. You share a feature with the author in that neither of you are economists! ;-) I skimmed the writing to create a skeleton of the

edit: ha! your edit nails it. You share a feature with the author in that neither of you are economists! ;-) I skimmed the writing to create a skeleton of the argument. The claims and solutions are wild. No, AMZN doesn't have a "free pass to grow without any pressure to show profits." This is evidenced by investor reactions to their Q4 earnings call. Her solution is a solution in search of a problem: More specifically, restoring traditional antitrust principles to create a presumption of predation and to ban vertical integration by dominant platforms could help maintain competition in these markets. If, instead, we accept dominant online platforms as natural monopolies or oligopolies, then applying elements of a public utility regime or essential facilities obligations would maintain the benefits of scale while limiting the ability of dominant platforms to abuse the power that comes with it.