Hmmmm....
I certainly have a love/hate relationship w/ Amazon.
Yes, I love that I don't have to drive all over town looking for various things as I used to in the past.
I love that if I need a last minute item for travel I can usually get it.
I love that I can send my elderly father various things he needs quickly & easily.
I am NO fan of Bezos. (post in & of itself--he is successful & has a right to spend his $, but you don't hear a lot about him using that $ for the betterment of others/the world as you do his wife, Buffett, Gates, etc)
There ARE numerous small businesses trying to do what they do.
I know of one in our city--Spreetail--where DD interned in college.
They are an etailer that do what he does on a MUCH smaller level--sell products from various other retailers.
And it is a STEEP uphill battle for them, but they are still plugging away anyway.
SO do I have a problem if Amazon is maniuplating sellers/the market to dominate the market?
YES
Look back over 100 years ago & we had few companies dominating our market & this was NOT advantageous for consumers (but VERY advantageous for them). [MOD EDIT]
Anti-trust laws were developed to mitigate this.
Unfortunately, these laws have been slowly weakened over the last 50 years...
Leading us HERE.
People have a right to do business & be successful.
They DO NOT have a right to manipulate market & the people who depend on them to do business, as is implicated in this law suit.
I certainly have a love/hate relationship w/ Amazon.
Yes, I love that I don't have to drive all over town looking for various things as I used to in the past.
I love that if I need a last minute item for travel I can usually get it.
I love that I can send my elderly father various things he needs quickly & easily.
I am NO fan of Bezos. (post in & of itself--he is successful & has a right to spend his $, but you don't hear a lot about him using that $ for the betterment of others/the world as you do his wife, Buffett, Gates, etc)
There ARE numerous small businesses trying to do what they do.
I know of one in our city--Spreetail--where DD interned in college.
They are an etailer that do what he does on a MUCH smaller level--sell products from various other retailers.
And it is a STEEP uphill battle for them, but they are still plugging away anyway.
SO do I have a problem if Amazon is maniuplating sellers/the market to dominate the market?
YES
Look back over 100 years ago & we had few companies dominating our market & this was NOT advantageous for consumers (but VERY advantageous for them). [MOD EDIT]
Anti-trust laws were developed to mitigate this.
Unfortunately, these laws have been slowly weakened over the last 50 years...
Leading us HERE.
People have a right to do business & be successful.
They DO NOT have a right to manipulate market & the people who depend on them to do business, as is implicated in this law suit.
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