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What? Why? Volume of revenue is not a reason to break up a company.
by Zetice 4y ago
What? Why? Volume of revenue is not a reason to break up a company.
- oblio 4y agoConflict of interest. Making a platform and using it yourself naturally corrupts you, the incentives are too strong.
- Zetice 4y agoWhat interest is conflicting, exactly? Seems like interests would be pretty perfectly aligned to maximize revenue.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoYes, at the expwnse of their customers and the law. Thats what conflict of onterest means
- Zetice 4y agoThat doesn’t make sense, because if their costumer isn’t satisfied, they can use another online store.
- freejazz 4y agoIt could be if it makes up the entire market...
- Zetice 4y agoExcept it doesn't, not even remotely; there are dozens of other ways of buying things online, people just choose not to.
- freejazz 4y agoExcept the issue isn't whether there are "dozens of other ways of buying things online, people just choose not to" but whether Amazon's market share is so large as to prohibit anyone from being able to compete with it.
- Zetice 4y agoThat’s an obvious, “No”, as there are many competitors to Amazon…
- freejazz 4y agoI'm not aware of any but okay, if you insist
- Zetice 4y agoYou're not aware of other online retailers?
- freejazz 4y agoAmazon is more than an online retailer... Amazon sells ads on its marketplace. It also sells ads that integrate within its marketplace listings in a fashion that can be difficult to discern. It offers a fulfillment service that is integrated with its marketplace. It offers an integrated third party marketplace. These, are of course, facts. Whereas my initial response to was just the hypothetical point that you misunderstand how anti-trust law is applied. I don't think this has been much of a conversation seeing as how you are just being purposefully obtuse. It's clear you are making no efforts to come at this with good faith and I'm not going to bother any further otherwise.
- Zetice 4y agoSo… walmart.com? You can use outrage if you want, but the fact remains that Amazon has nothing even approaching a monopoly, not in the legal sense and not in any layperson sense. You’re kind of proving my point for me, that there’s no actual argument here, just general negative sentiment.