It seems our economy is becoming dependent on Amazon. I can start a small business that is only viable if I team up with Amazon.
...then what if Amazon doesn’t like me? At the flick of a switch they can turn me off.
Amazon is already way too powerful.
I haven’t heard the word ‘anti-trust’ in about 20 years.
Anyone else notice that? We have entire government agencies that are there for no other reason than to prevent monopolies.
When MSFT wouldn’t play ball with the Clinton Admin in the 90’s, Bill threatened to break them into six pieces. I know first hand, because at the time we were consulting MSFT on it. At the time, they had ONE lobbyist in Olympia. From one lobbyist, they created the biggest lobbying function on the planet.
The game is rigged. I heard Paul Allen say, “I cannot believe that they would do this to the company responsible for creating this economy!!”
Mayor of Redmond used to march into Bill Gate’s office demanding this, that, and the other like they were stuck in Redmond.
The Corporatism (Fascism) you see today is directly related to those actions in the 90’s. The guy that first lowered the boom on Bill on playing ball with the D’s was my ex’s cousin. A senator, and a collection of malignant useless cells. He was a senior senator on the Senate Banking Committee during the 2008 meltdown. The man’s life amounted to damage. He made history.
The Establishment wants to kill us all.