I think Amazon is a monopoly. In the past, government solved this by breaking up the monopoly into regional powerhouses or breaking the business into un-vertically-integrated parts. With this said, I don't think Amazon's business structure lends itself to this. Ideas?
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Probably the easiest thing would be to break AWS from it. AWS's profits is what enables Amazon to pressure the competition with zero margins.
That's a misconception. Amazon has low margins only on big ticket items that it sells itself, like Samsung TVs. Amazon prints money on their 3rd party business. Amazon without AWS is still a standalone monopoly.
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$AMZN as a#monopsony see@Bfklin tweet. Does monopsony power fall under Sherman antitrust law? idk but it is a thought. For more on Amazon seller power, seehttps://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/amazon-antitrust-critic-has-her-own-critics-now/ … -
for manufacturing to become more local and break the subsidizing, FX fixing of China and any other actor that is subverting natural balancing trade of Ricardian economics. My view. /end.
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