Monopoly without being a monopoly?

[xXMASHERXx]

So you want to run coward and look for excuses. As if you had plans to do anything relevant in the first place.

I already explained ways to create an isolated economy. You just ask the same question, because you love to talk in circles.

Every generation we had goofballs doing nothing but talking is circles.

No you provided no such thing. You made up some imaginary scenario where you can setup a supermarket in community and lock Amazon out. Amazon can setup a whole foods in the same community, offer prices lower than yours taking away all your customers and have you out of business in a year. And you say I'm the one talking in circles. Good luck to you.

 

[Ish Gibor]

No you provided no such thing. You made up some imaginary scenario where you can setup a supermarket in community and lock Amazon out. Amazon can setup a whole foods in the same community, offer prices lower than yours taking away all your customers and have you out of business in a year. And you say I'm the one talking in circles. Good luck to you.

Of course it’s imaginary. That is how all companies start, with an imagination. So much for your logic. Now go cry to why you can’t do anything and how unfair it is others do.

I’m addressing something that is manageable and viable, if one is willing to do for self.

Continue talking in circles going nowhere, instead of discussing how you can avoid their traps. Oh, that of course takes brain power and work ethic, which you lack since you behave with a defeated mentality.

Have nice day.

 

[ogc163]

Amazon has the law on their side, they probably won't be broken up any time soon.

 

[Ish Gibor]

Amazon has the law on their side, they probably won't be broken up any time soon.

Maybe not in the USA, but in EU it will.

 

[ogc163]

Maybe not in the USA, but in EU it will.

Nah they'll probably do some grandstanding but won't follow through. Law and theory don't match the reality of the situation.

 

[Ish Gibor]

Nah they'll probably do some grandstanding but won't follow through. Law and theory don't match the reality of the situation.

The EU is tough on monopolies. Many other conglomerates have been subjected to the EU laws, where they had to bow-down. The USA is structured different and is prone to the bank-system. In the US they may not, but in the EU they will.

Microsoft Slapped with Biggest Fine in EU History | DW | 24.03.2004

If you want to know what a US tech crackdown may look like, check out what Europe did

 

[ogc163]

The EU is tough on monopolies. Many other conglomerates have been subjected to the EU laws, where they had to bow-down. The USA is structured different and is prone to the bank-system. In the US they may not, but in the EU they will.

Microsoft Slapped with Biggest Fine in EU History | DW | 24.03.2004

If you want to know what a US tech crackdown may look like, check out what Europe did

This is light, monopolies are fine paying big fines as long as their network effects are not undermined. Modern antitrust is based on companies that secured their power through control of tangible goods and supply chains, whereas today's monopolies power comes from network effects and control of platforms. Thus, unless there is a shift in theory and law the modern monopolies will be just fine.

 

[Ish Gibor]

This is light, monopolies are fine paying big fines as long as their network effects are not undermined. Modern antitrust is based on companies that secured their power through control of tangible goods and supply chains, whereas today's monopolies power comes from network effects and control of platforms. Thus, unless there is a shift in theory and law the modern monopolies will be just fine.

I’m not disagreeing with you. Of course it will not effect them economically, but that’s not directly the purpose. The purpose is that they can’t manipulate the market through monopoly, where they hold too much power in one branch. This is why they are forced to split their power, by outsourcing it. This is what happened with Microsoft years ago. Fundamentally it’s the same issue of control and power.

These companies are subjected to the Internet Governance. They can’t just do what they want based on a cartel models they use. What they did is criminal behavior, but nothing new. I have heard of these type of cases going back to the ‘90s.

The example I gave earlier for a great deal avoids the platforms you’re talking about and uses the supply chain model they don’t control.

Time will tell.