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This clearly shows why Amazon needs to be broken up. To allow a company to disrupt and disband local supply chains and then try to strong arm governments is ve
by ProAm 7y ago
This clearly shows why Amazon needs to be broken up. To allow a company to disrupt and disband local supply chains and then try to strong arm governments is very dangerous.
Walmart is known as a town killer. Amazon is an industry killer.
- splintercell 7y agoI see it as a good reason for why France needs to be broken up. EDIT: Those who're getting upset at it, think why or how is this any different than what OP wrote. If you want to create a liberal democracy with prosperous free markets then you create a set of deterministic rules and let people act under it. IF you don't like an outcome, don't apply hacks to it like break up a big company because you're upset at it, but change the basic rules (if you need to, which I think is a terrible idea in this situation). Amazon didn't do anything wrong other than played by the rules. If you don't like the outcome, don't try to apply hacks.
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- wavepruner 7y agoTwitter's translation of one of the tweets in the thread: "Considering the complexity inherent in our logistics activities and the fine of one million euros per infraction imposed by the court, the risk of contravening the decision was too high." This seems to be a valid reason for suspending operations, although no where in the tweet-thread explains how frequent the fines would be. If they can't comply with the order fast enough, shutting down operations in order to have time to comply without getting fined seems reasonable.
- mav3rick 7y agoFrance clearly wants to fill its coffers by fining every big SV company. Soon they will all pull out of France and no the local companies won't be even half as good. Then the people will clamor for Amazon etc. to be back.
- decebalus1 7y agoor... maybe the demand will spark innovation? The world doesn't revolve around SV (gasp!) and 'the people' don't really give a fuck
- mav3rick 7y agoLol we"ll see who your Google and Amazon competition will be. No one is stopping France from having startups in other domains and yet we see not one company of note.
- greggeter 7y agoClearly shows that government has too much power. And guess what? Both can be right.
- jasonpeacock 7y agoWhat would you break up Amazon into?
- ProAm 7y agoPlatform, Supplier, AWS, Shipping to start.
- lowdose 7y agoJust Amazon & AWS would be fair.
- gowld 7y agoHow would that benefit the current situation at all?
- ProAm 7y agoIt would level the playing field and enable a lot of competition. For example, is it fair the Amazon the platform as access to all the data about good selling products, pricing information, and can dictate to a selling what they are allowed to sell something for (i.e. you cannot sell a product cheaper on your own website if you sell it on Amazon), but then at the same time takes that data and then comes out with am Amazon Basic clone to then undercut you as a the seller? The seller that already had to take a price cut/profit margin cut to be on Amazon? Having them be both the platform and the seller is bad for industry. You the seller and giving them free market research only to sell at a disadvantage to them because they are the gateway to the platform, product, shipping. The have slowly strangled industry and in the case of France now want to take their ball and go home when we are dealing with a global emergency.
- twitch-chat 7y agoThat's how the industry has always worked. Walmart, Costco, supermarkets, clothing stores, pharmacies, etc, all have their own brand of products that they sell on their own stores along with other brands that use their competitor's infrastructure to sell their products. Usually the store's brand is also cheaper. Why is it an issue with Amazon?