Amazon is not a monopoly. They offer a compelling bundle of services. The whole point of breaking up monopolies is that monopolies are uniquely positioned to ma

Amazon is not a monopoly. They offer a compelling bundle of services. The whole point of breaking up monopolies is that monopolies are uniquely positioned to manipulate market prices. None of Amazon's businesses can arbitrarily increase prices without losing customers to their competition. In 2020 Amazon's political donations were roughly half those of Google and Microsoft, two companies who could more easily qualify as monopolies. Microsoft used to explicitly avoid political donations until the FTC made noise about breaking them up. Meta gets away with donating less because, as Zuckerberg stated on Lex Friedman, they collude with federal agencies to censor wrongthink. Amazon will remain whole and they're going to have to raise their protection fee to the Federal Mafia.