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0 pointscooooooffffeeee7y ago0 comments

You're high if you think someone can compete with Amazon out of their garage now.

Hell, you can't even sell a product on Amazon without a good chance that Amazon will just slap their Amazon Basics logo on it and undercut you to death.

Similar to Wal-Mart many of their competitors are dead because they optimized their supply chain. No one gets that kind of access out of their garage.

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ztratar7y ago

And if Amazon is broken up, whoever thinks the US will still win the global E-commerce market against Alibaba is also quite high.

The rules are changing. We need to think about the geopolitics here as well. We need US companies to win global markets in an era of increased competition.

zip12347y ago

Alibaba is a great example of why Amazon is NOT a monopoly.

cdiddy27y ago

Ya, globalization has changed my opinion on how we should handle these situations. How are US companies supposed to compete against other companies that are just as large if we restrict their size within the US? That just gives us a disadvantage against international competitors.

cooooooffffeeeeOP7y ago

>We need US companies to win global markets

why

buzzerbetrayed7y ago

Because otherwise the companies that do win the global markets do the same thing to US companies that you are saying Amazon does to small companies.

How is it a good thing for the US to limit their own companies, when foreign companies don't have the same limitations? Giant companies will still exist, they will just cease to be US based companies.

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