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Why does this keep happening?

• christophilus 2y ago
  Why does what keep happening? Antitrust cases or companies becoming monopolies?
• closewith 2y ago
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  • zdragnar 2y ago
    Yeah, there's no corruption, graft, or abuse of power in any place without capitalism. Breaking rules definitely isn't an innate part of human nature at scale. Edit: more seriously, it doesn't help that the laws are entirely subjective. You're not a monopoly until after the fact. Monopolistic behavior is sometimes rewarded, and sometimes punished. Look at court cases involving Apple and Google. The only real difference between them is scale. You're allowed to be big, up until someone decides that you're actually too big. It's only a question of "too big to fail" or "too big to exist".
• kghara 2y ago
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• peppers-ghost 2y ago
  Monopolies are a feature of unregulated capitalism. Every company wants to dominate the sector they're in, competition invariably leads to monopolies.
• mrweasel 2y ago
  Because it's very profitable? The issue is that even if you know it's wrong, what are you going to do to. You grow to a certain size, and it then becomes clear that you're inching closer and closer to becoming a monopoly. Do you then stop and inform your shareholders that you unfortunately reached the maximum size for your organisation? Even if you have no moral issue continuing down your current path, you have very little to fear, because the precedence is that you'll get a relatively mild punishment. For Amazon, if this was to have any real meaning, the US government could step and an say: Because of the actions of Amazon, the online store, we're no longer able to utilize AWS in good faith. This would force Amazon to split their businesses into two, or lose government contracts, which would both be a real punishment.