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by ipsocannibal 1946 days ago
Yet more evidence to be used in the eventual US anti-trust case demonstrating a pattern of anti-competitive behavior. Prefering big sellers and lying about it is not "customer centric" in any market. Actions like this are going to eventually crush the stock value. When that happens senior employees will cash out and retail will be sold off to the highest bidding hedge fund. AWS is the money maker anyway and that will be protected at all costs.
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>Yet more evidence to be used in the eventual US anti-trust case demonstrating a pattern of anti-competitive behavior

Little chance. Bezos has purchased his way into the class of decision makers in this country through acquisitions of media and integrating into the military industrial complex (in numerous ways). Amazon embodies the privatization of a centralized economy more than anything else. Needless to say: this is not good.

They should be careful not to cross into Icarus territory.