For the pro-monopoly crowd that absolutely dominated antitrust law from the Carter administration until 2020, Amazon presents a genuinely puzzling paradox: the company's monopoly power was never supposed to emerge, and if it did, it should have crumbled immediately.
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@Aethelstan@pluralistic couldn't agree more. I certainly hope the head of the FTC will succeed in a breakup Amazon and all the other corrupt corporate enterprises. We really need to end the reign of the IT oligarchs and their #corporatesurvellience business models