12/27 - Thriving Thursday!

This makes me thankful that Nana Bunny would just always send me home with a manicotti and a crisp 50

 

my grandma would forget who i was, and then yell at the tv when there'd be a black person on a commercial.

 

in her defense, she was slightly more lovely before the alzheimers kicked in

 

Bezos coming for UPS and Fedex next

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-amazon-prime-air-delivery-service-20181221-story.html

 

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My son said a few times over this holiday season upon seeing Amazon in the news for various things, "Uh, won't the anti-trust laws kick in sometimes soon? I mean, they can't own EVERYTHING. We literally have regulations to prevent monopolies."

 

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Tell your son not to worry as Uncle Bezos has already paid his dues to the law makers.

 

Your Grandma would have gotten along swell with my Pop Pop

 

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He played the game smarter than most, i do not see him as an ultimate villian where world domination is his end game. But there be some laws in place to regulate when companies are getting too big and out of control.

 

I did tell him that I was sure Amazon has a team of lawyers that are keeping an eye on this.

He then related an example to me from some time back in history that I have completely forgotten but trying to prove his point that you're never too big to be taken down. I stared at him like, "Wow, that was a lot of information in a short period of time."

Kiddo loves history (he's considering becoming a history teacher, and getting his Masters Degree so he can teach it at a junior college as well as high school or junior high).

 

JR panda crazy isn't letting me PANDA any hits pulled from here. Anyone know of any fixes?

 

...and if everything goes sideways, bezos can just shut down the servers and hold the internet hostage until we submit.

 

It's a long way from being a monopoly.....

Amazon is big, but it controls only 5% of all retail sales in the U.S. and only 1% globally, according to Jodi Seth, head of policy communications for Amazon. By 2020, the number is estimated to increase to 10% of all retail sales in the U.S.

Obviously, Amazon's controlling 10% of retail sales in the U.S. will set off alarm bells, correct? False. According to the United States Department of Justice, "as a practical matter, a market share of greater than 50% has been necessary for courts to find the existence of monopoly power."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/britta...-a-monopoly-president-trump-yet/#19d26d844735