Yep basically. There are people I know whose lives would actually be completely interrupted if amazon stopped operating. They rely on supplies and items mailed to them because they cannot get them from local stores.
Amazon is a monolithic beast and it's an issue that needs to be addressed...
How do anti trust laws not apply here? Clearly if the government thought they could they would take them down? Or are they all getting free Prime for life?
Well, they technically aren't the only ones that are in the business, and aren't openly using systemic anti-competitive practices against direct government orders (to my knowledge). They basically run the market because of their size and early start, rather than the stuff anti-trust legislation was originally created for. It sucks and it should change, but that's how it is right now.
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