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Okay, using that definition, Walmart, Target, Dollar Tree, my local regional grocery store, Trader Joe's and Ralph's are monopolies as well. They own their shel
by tt24 10mo ago
Okay, using that definition, Walmart, Target, Dollar Tree, my local regional grocery store, Trader Joe's and Ralph's are monopolies as well. They own their shelves and store space, and are the sole arbiters responsible for deciding what is sold within them.
- stavros 10mo agoIf you have purchased your own Walmart and corporate still decides what you sell within it, then yes, that is exactly the same.
- tt24 10mo agoOkay, so it has to be something you purchase - we're slowly getting closer to the true opinion here. Sony is a monopoly as well then? They decide what gets sold in the Playstation store. Same with Nintendo. Ford and Tesla are monopolies, they solely decide what is software is sold or used in their car's infotainment center stores, despite the fact that I have purchased the car! AWS is a monopoly, despite the fact that I purchase an EC2 instance from them for one year they will not let me run certain kinds of software on it (Parler, some crypto, etc.)
- stavros 10mo agoIf you purchase a physical device, yes. You don't buy devices from AWS, you rent. I'm not sure what's hard about this.
- tt24 10mo agoI notice how you intentionally didn't respond to the other two points, interesting.
- stavros 10mo agoI responded to all the points. What's unclear?
- tt24 10mo agoSo Ford and Tesla are monopolies?
- stavros 10mo agoIf you buy a physical device from them and they control what you can install on it, yes.
- tt24 10mo agoHilarious opinion. Of course they’re not, Tesla and Ford don’t have a dominant market share anywhere and have a tremendous amount of competitors. I think it would help you to take a look at what the word monopoly means.
- stavros 10mo agoHow many vendors can you buy software for your Tesla from? How many vendors can you buy software for your Dell from?