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1, Amazon runs the platform that sells the games - Amazon 2, Amazon runs the platform that people use while playing the games - Twitch 3, Amazon runs the platform that hosts the servers to play the games - AWS 4, Amazon runs the platform that you play the game on - Luna 5, Amazon runs the platform that creates the games - EA how is this not anti-competition for anyone running a company that competes in only one of th…
Other than Twitch (and maybe AWS, I don't know enough), none of those are monopoly or capable of anti-competition. Even twitch has youtube as alternative
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Number of people employed. If you can rake in billions using a team of 50 people, that is great, and should be allowed. Also, a company like Apple should be allowed. What should not be allowed is for Apple to own its entire supply chain (which would not be possible if company size was limited by number of people).
Employee as the metric doesn't work. Consulting businesses are literally in the business to resell their employed talent. Their "product" is their employees. As such, they type of business by its very nature have a disproportionately large number of employees. E.g. Accenture employees 700,000 people, Tata Consulting 600,000.
This is where the line gets trickier:
- Less government on things that matter; - Enough government to avoid big corps from creating monopolies.
Finding this middle ground is proven to be really, I mean really difficult, to say the least.
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>> Amazon's strategy is to be a smarter GE I was thinking Mitsubishi. Powerplants and ships would be helpful to them.
> Mitsubishi In high school, I was thrilled that my DVD player had the same logo as my friend's motorcycle.
All recent amazon acquisitions are big AWS Customers, its super easy for Amazon to find Cost of running business for a any Technology Company who run majority of stack or provide products using AWS and go behind them for acquisition or build them internally and release as a service.
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No one can making any money except platform holders. 30% commissions are egregious. These aquisitions are just the side effect. We need a commission cap on all platforms that do over $1billion in annual sales. The Apple vs Epic trial revealed 80% margins for Apple on the App Store: https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/01/apple-runs-app-store-with-78-... A cap of 10-15% should do it.
I don't think a cap is the right solution. Better would be regulations, controls, etc to enable competition for marketplaces (at least for those of a certain size) Like on iOS, if there was actual competition for app stores, Apple would face pressure from a competitive market to reduce their commission percentage. Developers will not want to put their apps/games on Apple's store if they continue to charge outrages fe…
Countries around the world already regulate pricing on things like Credit Card transaction fees. This should be no different. In Australia for example:
"Each scheme's average interchange fee, weighted by the value or volume of transactions in each interchange category, is required to be below a benchmark of 0.50 per cent for credit cards, and 8 cents for debit and prepaid cards."
https://www.rba.gov.au/payments-and-infrastructure/review-of....
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> a mass effect TV series would be nice if they don't fuck it up After what they did to Halo I'm not holding my breath.
What do you mean? Master Chief is best known for taking off his helmet at any and every opportunity, and for sleeping with Covenant spies while Cortana watches. Edit: I also didn't expect them to use the people who did voice acting for the game, but it's bizarre to me that they decided to get Jen Taylor to voice Cortana but didn't decide to cast her as Halsey. Would have made more sense to just have the lady who play…
Will there ever be a point where as a society we agree to put an upper cap on the size of companies? Does Amazon really need to absorb even more? Doesn’t that stifle competition? I understand that enforcement is hard as the rule wouldn’t be global, but still curious.
"Need"?