Karl Voit  

"Amazon as a whole isn’t really very profitable. Its retail sector loses money, and that loss is made up by the tens of billions of gravy coming in from #AWS and Advertising.

Why is this business structure considered rational? And why is it legal for #Amazon to be the prime competitor of the #economy’s whole #retail sector while not having to make a #profit?"

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/02/03/Amazon-Q4-2022 by @timbray

ongoing by Tim Bray · Amazon Q4 2022 Financials

Feb 3, 2023 at 3:03pmWeb
Show threadCaraway CarterFeb 3, 2023
@publicvoit @timbray And why do they have such a stranglehold on if you can set up a preorder or not.
Show threadDick Smiths Fair Go SupportersFeb 3, 2023

@publicvoit
Good question. It should be a #lawOfTheInternet to block Amazon.

They should be blocked at the Network level. In fact the same for Cloudflare, Google, Akamai, TwitterBuyer, and Microsoft servers.

#blockCAGEFAM #internetLaw
@timbray

Show threadpmkFeb 3, 2023
@publicvoit @timbray how can you mandate by law that a company will have profits?
Show threadGil Friend, sustainability OGFeb 3, 2023

@publicvoit @timbray

Operating at a loss to dominate markets used to be considered #UnfairBusinessPractices, and used to be illegal