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I'm fairly certain many many businesses are not reliant on those '3 trees'. Even in a narrower scope, just talking about mass market businesses selling consume
by MichaelZuo 3y ago
I'm fairly certain many many businesses are not reliant on those '3 trees'.
Even in a narrower scope, just talking about mass market businesses selling consumer products, an example would be the huge number of Walmart suppliers that do fine without sitting under those specific '3 trees'.
Yes a large fraction do sit under the big 'Walmart tree' but they're not chained to it forever, the big 'Costco tree' is also available, along with many other smaller trees.
- jevoten 3y agoSo it's not a problem until it's impossible to run any business at all without relying on "those 3" (for any value of "those 3")?
- omeid2 3y agoIf your counter argument to consolidation is "Walmart", you're way off the mark to begin with, because they're a megacorp of their own. But even then, in a very interesting twist of absurdity that is the current state of affairs, your argument gets even more funny when you consider that Walmart spends some 4 billion dollars on ads per year, and are one of the largest customers of Google ads and Facebook Ads. So even Walmart depends on those 3 'trees'.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoDid you not finish reading the comment? I mentioned other alternatives...