Marc Andreessen Annotates Paul Krugman's Amazon Op-Ed
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Marc Andreessen Annotates Paul Krugman's Amazon Op-Ed
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Re: Marc Andreessen Annotates Paul Krugman's Amazon Op-Ed
#2I wonder if diapers.com had been an Andreessen investment if his take on Amazon would be the same?
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#3> Krugman is one of the most important writers and the world, and nearly always gets it right.
I stopped reading right there.
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#4I always find it amusing when someone snipes at someone else's writing and still comes off second best.
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#5Andreessen makes some really excellent points in there, but there a few that just strike me as incorrect:
> Another classic Krugman rhetorical maneuver. According to Paul, keeping prices low is a sign of monopoly power, but of course he’d also say that keeping prices high would also be a sign of monopoly power.
Yeah its both. You can be a monopoly by having ridiculously high or low prices, mainly its really low then really high and if you think Amazon wouldnt raise everything by 100$ if it could, you're just wrong.
> It will startle every single business owner and CEO in the world to learn that negotiating with suppliers is now a business tactic that is “out of line”.
No negotiating is smart. Strong arming is wrong. Amazon is strong arming people not negotiating. They are playing the game where if you don't agree with what they are doing they are taking their toys and leaving. This causes economic harm to the company because of Amazon's volume to the point where the publishers have to use Amazon's terms which is monopolistic power.
Re: Marc Andreessen Annotates Paul Krugman's Amazon Op-Ed
#6Is it just me or is the Genius interface kind of confusing? Is there any way to see just Marc Andreessen's comments and not the comments of a bunch of other randos too?
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#7Am I the only one who thinks that inline responses usually end up making the replying author sound childish and petty?
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#8I'm not sure how impressed I am by Marc's arguments. For instance:
> Another classic Krugman rhetorical maneuver. According to Paul, keeping prices low is a sign of monopoly power, but of course he’d also say that keeping prices high would also be a sign of monopoly power.
This seems silly. Krugman doesn't say that Amazon's low prices are a sign that they have monopoly power. He's saying that Amazon uses low prices to acquire or maintain ("reinforce") monopoly power ("dominance").
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#9This format is terrible for both usability (click click click click) and general coherence. A plain old fisking would be vastly superior.
Re: Marc Andreessen Annotates Paul Krugman's Amazon Op-Ed
#10I can't imagine that this stuff is legal - the NYT has paid Krugman to write this, and Genious is just copying the text and adding a few (to my mind inane) links and comments. It all seems very shady..