Whenever I read the replies on my popular tweets about Amazon, I realize that people have largely forgotten just how godawful online retail/delivery used to be. Maybe it's not fair to give Amazon *all* the credit, but it did force everybody else to raise their game substantially
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Again, could be true, but this argument is still not tantamount to "Amazon is a bad service," and nor are the monopoly concerns allayed by points about how hard it was to Internet shop pre-Amazon, or how convenient it is in the middle of a pandemic (or any other point in time).
If Amazon is an exceptional service, it really does undercut the claim that it must break the law to succeed. Monopoly concerns are allayed both by Amazon not being a monopoly and by Amazon not causing the problems monopolies tend to cause.
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If you're concerned that Amazon actually creates systemic weakness by executing so much better than its competitors that its customers avoid shopping elsewhere, that seems less like an Amazon problem and more like an Everyone Else problem.
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Anyway, people like you & I get to have these fun talks because we can say things like "convenient in the middle of a pandemic," presumably because we don't expect this thing to kill us. Not everyone has that luxury, and those people need services like Amazon so they do not die.
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Better than breaking the law is exploiting it. Amazon figured out that the US Postal service was a subsidy in search of a recipient.
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The “must break the law” is a strawman. The question is whether they are choosing to break the law, regardless of necessity. There are plenty of successful businesses who also engage in unlawful behavior. See Standard Oil or early Microsoft, or Duetsche Bank for non-monopoly ex
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Amazon succeeding to the extent that it has would look much stranger if plenty of other online retailers were comparably enjoyable to use. Of course they could still be breaking the law. It's just not a load-bearing claim when you look at how well they've done.
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Significantly better frame, but the similarity in coinage does not indicate you're dealing with a remotely similar, insurmountable, or consequential problem
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