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Deliberately targeting growing competitors using things like predatory pricing [0] is not the same as growing and diversifying. [0] https://www.aei.org/technol
by metrokoi 6y ago
Deliberately targeting growing competitors using things like predatory pricing [0] is not the same as growing and diversifying.
[0] https://www.aei.org/technology-and-innovation/who-should-antitrust-protect-the-case-of-diapers-com/ https://www.aei.org/technology-and-innovation/who-should-ant...
- saiya-jin 6y agoStill, it has been part of capitalism since its dawn... not saying its the best for us all - far from it, but no huge multinational corporation grew to its size by playing nice and polite. The thing is, amoral behavior can be seen left and right, through large part of history of Silicon Valley (remember Gates & Jobs & Xerox). To me as an end consumer, Facebook has a true monopoly and progressively shittier products compared to Google - ads comprising half of my feed, their core product is still broken and buggy in many places but that's another topic. Recent UI changes made it much worse product. Google looks great compared. But again that's very personal and limited view.
- buzzkillington 6y ago>Still, it has been part of capitalism since its dawn... So was slavery. Yet somehow we managed to legislate that away.
- marcinzm 6y agoThose competitors are fueled by VC money which let's them price their products below sustainable levels. In other words they're doing predatory pricing just as much as Amazon. Banning it will probably help Amazon more than it hurts them.
- scarface74 6y agoHow is that any different than every VC backed startup?