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In reply to the discussion: Sen. Sanders agrees with Trump that Amazon is problematic [View all]KPN
(17,368 posts)today rather than via their own website. And that number is growing. The reason for that: technological advantages that Amazon has relative to markets/marketing. Those advantages are likely to grow in Amazon's favor. The reason we as a society tend to tolerate the concentration of market share in instances like Amazon and Wal-Mart is the emphasis we place on consumer prices (which is essentially access) in our competition law. We have also always favored plurality as opposed to concentration of power in suppliers, producers, providers as a general rule in our democratic society as well as competition law. New technologies have put those two guiding principles somewhat at odds. We have created and revised laws to adapt to new technologies as a nation in the past (railroad transportation and communications are examples). There's no reason we can't do so again if it's society's will.