Amazon Lobbied More Government Entities Than Any Other US Company Last Year
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#2Url changed from http://fortune.com/2019/03/13/amazon-lobbying-washington/, which points to this.
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#3They have the most diverse set of businesses of any company, so this makes sense.
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#4Thats because every Govt entity uses compute, and every govt entity needs a office goods supplier.
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#5Break-it-up
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#6Jeff sure does love operating at scale.
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#7They have the most diverse set of businesses of any company, so this makes sense.
Why is product diversity a driver of lobbying? Does Amazon have to lobby anyone at all?
There are institutional investors who have stakes in a much wider variety of companies than Amazon. Why aren't they at the top of the list?
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#8They have the most diverse set of businesses of any company, so this makes sense.
Is that really true? What about, say, General Electric?
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#9Remember when internet companies were supposed to be disrupting the system, not co-opting it and making regulatory capture favor themselves?
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#10You either allow lobbying or ban it. Amazon used a legal process to tip the balance in their favour. The entire lobbying thing does sound to me like a hack in the entire democratic process.
People should vote not companies.