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The land they have is being put to productive use. Unless I am very misled, they have many revenue streams that are profitable. No one is successfully invading
by jdbernard 12y ago
The land they have is being put to productive use. Unless I am very misled, they have many revenue streams that are profitable. No one is successfully invading their space, so I would argue they are defending their territory quite adequately. Alexander only stopped because his troops wouldn't keep going. Why should Amazon stop?
Also, I liked Eugene Wei's response[1] to the comments of Yglesias and others.
[1]: http://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2013/10/25/amazon-and-the-profitless-business-model-narrative http://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2013/10/25/amazon-and-the-prof...
- tptacek 12y agoNobody is successfully invading their space because those spaces are, to painfully stretch the analogy, still under martial law: Amazon is aggressively subsidizing them with sweet terms for customers.
- jdbernard 12y agoBut that's working. And unless I'm mistaken (which is quite possible) those spaces under martial law are profitable. If people were pointing out that Amazon wasn't generating revenue, that would be a different story.
- tptacek 12y agoI'm not saying it's not working. I'm making descriptive statements, not normative ones.