The problem with cancelling Amazon

[Tweedy]

73. I think you may have just identified a monopoly

with vertical integration galore
The whole building as it were.

Walmart destroyed businesses I knew and loved. Amazon destroyed businesses I knew and loved. Many of those were bookstores. Barnes and Noble destroyed businesses I knew and loved.

There used to be hardware stores with experts in them able to make the exact sized pipe you needed quickly, efficiently without error. This consolidation has lead to riskier banks with less local investment traded for speculation.

In my lived experience, monopolies don’t make anything better. Indeed, these days we have walking, talking, living examples of miserable monopolists.

We need competition, diversity and redundancy just like this Earth does to survive, much less thrive.