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Those who pave streets you walk on and fine you when you're speeding... So uh... How about Aliexpress?
I think this is valid point in general, but I don't think it has much bearing on a discussion about Amazon, which doesn't contribute very much to taxes.
the referenced article from Yale Law Journal is very interesting - and discuss amazon in context of anti-trust laws, what is wrong with those laws and some solutions. snip snip ( https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado... ) "in some ways, the story of Amazon’s sustained and growing dominance is also the story of changes in our antitrust laws. Due to a change in legal thinking and practice in the…
the referenced article from Yale Law Journal is very interesting - and discuss amazon in context of anti-trust laws, what is wrong with those laws and some solutions. snip snip ( https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado... ) "in some ways, the story of Amazon’s sustained and growing dominance is also the story of changes in our antitrust laws. Due to a change in legal thinking and practice in the…
I mean... Isn't this exactly what is desired? "Bezos looked at things that violated the law, and then didn't do them". That's exactly why the laws exist - to deter anticompetitive behavior, not to punish success.
Well - its not so much about that, but more about what Bezos et al were looking at.
The Yale law article is critical of a change in thinking that may have enabled the outcomes of amazon's behaviors : "Due to a change in legal thinking and practice in the 1970s and 1980s"
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