Correct answer. Of-course it is about the economy, almost everything is. People don't go out as much, go out to cheaper restaurants, spend less on vacations, stay home on vacations. The employed have fewer children, the professional welfare recipients maximize gov't support by having 3 kids + 'no known' father of the children or better yet, an incarcerated one. The young people will figure out that it makes no sense to pay for insurance under ACA until they are sick, because insurance cannot be denied now due to a preexisting condition while the tax for not paying it is smaller than premiums. The people on UI will not bother finding jobs until the benefits run out regardless of what Obama says. The banks will not stop gambling with money as long as the Fed is printing and forcing interest rates down, which both, kills yield and provides gambling money and environment. Money printing is inflation and it forces people to raise prices. Etc etc, all of the above and much more are RATIONAL economic decisions by RATIONAL actors, all of it was predicted years ago (even in my journals on/.) and the only people not getting it are modern main stream 'economists'.
I build and support retail management systems, supply chain management, CRM, ERP for retailers, for suppliers, for shipping, logistics and such. The simplest way to use a bank terminal is NOT to connect it to a POS in the first place. But this means lack of integration and possible errors by a POS operator, if for example they have to indicate in the POS system whether the it was a cash or a card transaction, etc. We provide our own Linux based solutions for all parts of the business management, including integrated, linux based POS, but again, the way we integrate it, the POS doesn't even get to see the bank terminal information, it sends the total amount to the terminal and expects a confirmation or a rejection back from it, it doesn't operate the terminal, it is not even possible for the POS to know what is happening between the customer and the terminal. From my POV it is bad form to allow POS to know anything that the terminal does beyond final status of the transaction.
Reality is that income taxation is theft, actually it's organised armed robbery. You can't have a real society built upon theft, imprisonment and threat of murder (which is what can happen if you oppose the mob, if you fight against the armed gov't thugs).
Taxation is about short term political benefit, it's about promises to win elections, it's about theft and control through the promise of great violence. It has nothing to do with reducing the suffering, it increases the suffering, it destroys productivity and increases poverty.
There are no viable gov't solutions that can work in the long term, because all gov't solutions are based on violence and rely on misallocation of capital and eventually the reality catches up and then violence gets a violent response, once the misallocation of capital ends up destroying the economy of the society.
There can be no gov't involvement in education, medicine, police, fire protection, any form of infrastructure, there can be no welfare state. If this is implemented, it's a short term high, that the system gets from the theft and mis-allocation of scarce resources and eventually it destroys the system. When I talk about short term, I am even talking about 100 year stretches - it's still a short term when the long term reality is in thousands of years.
They have been peddling this crap for three decades
- you don't know shit, what actually has been peddled for 4 decades is massive inflation that allowed massive welfare state growth, with different levels of welfare, where the herd is used to justify power grab, because the mob will always vote itself more theft and redistribution from its proceeds, while some very well connected on top will also get the welfare in terms of gov't contracts and such.
Poor are not able to climb out of poverty
- definitely. Poor are the herd, they are a necessity for the gov't, you don't reduce poverty with gov't, you grow poverty with gov't and you use poverty to take over all powers and steal from the yet productive people.
infrastructure is crumbling
- definitely, that's because it was NEVER sustainable. It was a gov't welfare project it wasn't there because businesses put it there for productive reasons, it was built with stolen money and it falls apart once the well dries out and the well dried out and the businesses moved on and there is no need for any of this infrastructure in a unproductive society. Infrastructure shouldn't be in the hands of gov't, but hey, they bought you lock stock and barrel with the gov't projects and 'new society' crap.
our trade imbalance is getting wider
- definitely. 500 Billion USD / year, that's your negative productivity for decades now. It's the result of growth of gov't power, growth of inequality built with gov't power, massive of inflation - money printing that gov't is running. Sure, the Federal reserve is a private bank, but it doesn't matter, hasn't mattered since 1917, when the Congress gave it authority to monetise US Treasury debt and that's where the bubbles start, all of them, from 1921 depression to 1925-1929, the 1930s depression, the 1950-1970 bubble in gov't spending, the 1971 default on the dollar, the 1970 stagflation, the 1980s bubble, the 1990s bubble, the 2000s bubble and the last one that is still growing, the bond and USD bubble. When that one bursts.... well, it shall be interesting times. At least the people that are still productive will finally be able to consume the fruits of their own labour rather than subsidising USA consumption with their work.
colossal failure of Reganomics
- in that it was not actually free market. Free market ended in USA in 1911.
trickle down economics
- also known as economics. That's what is happening in the productive parts of the world, except that USA exported inflation is still preventing their producers from being able to consume the fruits of their labour, still, even so, as an example Chinese have pulled 350Million people out of poverty over 30 years, more than entire Europe and USA in a 100.
The money paid by the consumers are what is paying for the cost of production
- wrong. Money doesn't exist until it is produced, money is a claim on future production and fake demand fuelled by inflation does not create production.
Consumers have to get the money from somewhere, and it's actually businesses that make money - that's a really wonderful American phrase "to make money". It actually means something, but you wouldn't know.
profit of the investors and wages of the employees
- consumers don't have anything to give until they produce, you clearly don't understand that this is not a 'chicken and an egg' question. Before you can eat, you have to grow something.
If there is a profit to be made, somebody will.
- I know, I run my business to generate profits. I wouldn't run it in USA though, because that's not a place to generate profits in a legitimate market anymore.
Precisely, which is why your desire for "erase names from blah blah" is irrelevant. I don't believe in erasing anything from history, by the way, you fucking collectivist Orwellian pig monster, but trust me, to me Mandela and his communism is the stuff that should be erased from LIFE, but not from history.
Of-course there is no need to run a police state in order to INSTITUTE government controlled 'health care', government controlled 'education programs', government 'welfare' mechanisms.
However instituting those things is what gives the government power and the backing of the mob to become a police state and at that point we shouldn't be talking about INTENTS we should be talking about CAPABILITIES, because regardless of any intents, once the government has a capability, it will use it to maximize income streams of the people closer connected to the government and to achieve it running a police state becomes an inevitable imperative.
Just copy and paste my past comments as responses in the future threads.
In fact why bother making any comments ever again by any of the supposed sides in any of the future threads at all?
Here is a list of our questions, here is a list of your answers and here it is again in reverse.
This is excellent, we are now automating everything, from insightful while irrelevant in the bigger schema of things comments to your average trololo style threads.
Oh, beyond that, I should have read the stupid story linked from TFS.
The idiot author is making a number of straw arguments, one of the arguments is about Friedrich Hayek and that statement is just as ridiculous as the rest of his ideas.
Friedrich Hayek would not have seen BTC as real money, but he would have approved of people's desire to try different competing currencies, so he would have been on the side of people trying different things, including BTCs, but he could not see BTCs as real money, for Hayek real money had to have intrinsic value, which the author of that nonsense article doesn't understand.
SS, Medicare, Medicaid, FHA, EPA, FDIC, IRS, Fed, dep't of energy, dep't of education, dep't of interior, dep't of commerce, dep't of labour, so called 'defence' department, dep't of agriculture. Let's just start with those, every single one a failure, every single one a huge waste of resources and inevitably leading towards destruction of the USA economy in the long run, and we are at the end of that long run.
read and weep, you are only 100% wrong and you just bathe in your ignorance. The ONLY reason AT&T was a monopoly for all this time was because gov't gave it that power and destroyed 3000 of its competitors.
If you have 1% of integrity left, you'll reply with an apology for being an ignorant fuck while being so sure of yourself.
There is a summary? Let me put it this way, there are more than 2 letters in the header of this story, even that is too much. What they should do is just use pictures of kittens, then the story will grab attention. Whatever the story is, add kittens and remove the nonsense about the story and it becomes the perfect story.
Here is how this/. story should have started:
Kittens. (pictures of kittens) CUTE KITTENS (a youtube lolcat video) Kitty cat. Discuss.
The reality of-course is that they are the cardboard cutouts from Rand's stories, except they are not even 2 dimensional, they only one 1 dimension, it's called hate, jealousy, greed to other people's productivity.
By approaching the design and implementation of the system from POV of a designer/developer, I was able to offer a number of solutions to the retail chain in question, which they could not even imagine. So right now this chain has software that does things in a way that is not normally done by other retail management solutions because it wasn't a manager of the chain that proposed the technical solutions to his problems, it was a designer / developer that offered a different, more efficient approach to handling business and the retail agreed and is benefiting from it, it's a competitive advantage they have against others.
When designing systems for my clients I first listen to what they are trying to convey but then I always take a trip to their locations, departments, stores, whatever it is and I just ask to be allowed to be there, to see what they are doing. Some operations are quite intricate, so I have to sit in with a user and have him/her guide me through the processes, sometimes it's enough just to observe what the operations are like to understand problems.
For example when I started building my retail chain management systems, my background in telecom / banking / insurance / manufacturing / utilities did NOT prepare me for what I observed in retail, in fact it was counter-intuitive and seemed wrong on its face. When an execute order comes to a bank, everything is done in the proper sequence, the transactionality is ensured, etc. In retail that's not the case at all. An order arrives to a store, the boxes can be checked for the products quickly and then pushed to the floor, where the items are placed on the shelves immediately and then they can be sold right away.... but the order may not be in the system yet, so this means the products are NOT in the electronic system and they can already be sold.
This means you have to be able to handle negative amounts of products, as an example, all the way from the cash registers to the accounting systems and your systems have to be able to deal with all of these weird situations, weird from POV of somebody who is used to strict transactionality in terms of processes.
Yes, you have to observe people working IRL or you'll have a bunch of preconceived notions that may be totally wrong and your systems won't handle them at all.
I am of an opinion that no amount of anything is worth destruction of individual freedom. I am of an opinion that government must not even exist, much less that it should commit armed robbery and steal people's money to fund anything at all, at this point even defense is not a valid excuse as governments are most of the time the aggressors that kill people, not other independent individuals.
So a case where a few pixels on the screen are incorrectly calculated is one thing and nobody cares, but what about a mistake of calculating actually valuable units, like precise measurements used in avionics, power plants, energy distribution systems, voting points, monetary amounts, health monitoring data and such?
Do we then need multiple cores running the same code and taking a vote between them or do we end up with math co-processors aimed at lower error rates with larger transistor sizes and also lower frequencies?
When will the cost of fixing and/or getting around errors outweigh the benefit of a smaller transistor size and a cheaper part?
I guess one answer is: have different chips for different purposes at higher cost and different spec.
Hans Christian Andersen did not tell a fairy tale to little children, he told a political story about a system of lies and a whistle-blower but in his story the kid did not end up prosecuted. Guess what, Andersen wasn't familiar with the modern American Empire.
But are any of your 'best programmer' friends employed? Google says they are not. If you say they are it is your word vs Google's word and since Google can control what of you exists or does not exist on the Internet Google wins by default. Resistance is futile and you will be assimilated into the Googleorg.
As I said in the next story, Amazon is aiming squarely at excellence, it's aiming at lowering prices for the consumers, at increasing quality of service, it's aiming at beating the old guard in their game by changing what the game actually is and this hurts egos and bottom lines of the uncompetitive interests and this does not put bribes into the pockets of the politicians.
Only governments create monopolies, excellent businesses like Standard Oil, Alcoa Aluminium, IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, they create products that people use and pay for, they push prices down and they wipe the road with the competition. Then the small, jealous, uncompetitive combine efforts and money to buy power from the obvious sources - government. They are not interested in the best outcome for the customers, clients, consumers, they are interested in preserving the status quo. The mob, which you are part of, likes to vandalise and push down those, who are better at what they do, so the mob cheers. At the end the economy suffers because everybody (including the mob) ends up with worse services, higher prices, even bigger and a more corrupt government and the wheels of progress get some some sand thrown into the gears and the entire system becomes less efficient as a total.
There are no monopolies but what governments create. What you call a monopoly is the most efficient economy of scale and it provides the best product at the best service.
More than that, Amazon REDUCES monopoly power!
That's right, but it's something you don't see, because it's not something you even understand. Normal B&M retailers have huge monetary incentives in keeping the status quo in terms of the supplier lines because the largest suppliers are also powerful economies of scale but they are also pushed down by various 'anti-monopoly' laws, but they find ways to bribe politicians and to give kickbacks to the retailers to keep a huge stock of only THEIR products on the shelves, ensuring that smaller suppliers with different choices don't make it to the market.
Notice, that this has nothing to do with what Amazon does, Amazon will NOT prevent you from selling your product, Amazon doesn't have limited shelf space in the virtual world, but B&M stores do have LIMITED shelf space.
By pushing into the virtual, Amazon allows everybody who wants to sell and has something to sell, to sell. This provides the widest variety of products, it increases competition among suppliers by allowing more and more suppliers to enter the field.
Amazon is one of the best and cheapest distribution systems in the entire world, they commoditise distribution business, they are doing for real life products what Internet has done for text and binary files (books, music, movies, games, etc.)
Amazon must not be pushed down by governments, if they can't compete eventually against somebody else, they'll lose their position, but it will ONLY happen if the customers see value in some other proposals. No monopoly exists without gov't intervention and no economy of scale stays on top if it can be outcompeted by a more flexible player.
So you are on the wrong side of this, most likely due to government supplied 'education'.
Protectionism is protecting some uncompetitive businesses, not protecting the customers, clients, consumers. Not protecting customer's wallets, but protecting wallets of the uncompetitive, unsuccessful, those unwilling to adapt, restructure, change with the time. There is no virtue in that, do you know what happens with organisms that do not adapt to the changing environments?
Slashdot Mirror
Correct answer. Of-course it is about the economy, almost everything is. People don't go out as much, go out to cheaper restaurants, spend less on vacations, stay home on vacations. The employed have fewer children, the professional welfare recipients maximize gov't support by having 3 kids + 'no known' father of the children or better yet, an incarcerated one. The young people will figure out that it makes no sense to pay for insurance under ACA until they are sick, because insurance cannot be denied now due to a preexisting condition while the tax for not paying it is smaller than premiums. The people on UI will not bother finding jobs until the benefits run out regardless of what Obama says. The banks will not stop gambling with money as long as the Fed is printing and forcing interest rates down, which both, kills yield and provides gambling money and environment. Money printing is inflation and it forces people to raise prices. Etc etc, all of the above and much more are RATIONAL economic decisions by RATIONAL actors, all of it was predicted years ago (even in my journals on /.) and the only people not getting it are modern main stream 'economists'.
roman
No, the device has to be configured and there is a key exchange.
I build and support retail management systems, supply chain management, CRM, ERP for retailers, for suppliers, for shipping, logistics and such. The simplest way to use a bank terminal is NOT to connect it to a POS in the first place. But this means lack of integration and possible errors by a POS operator, if for example they have to indicate in the POS system whether the it was a cash or a card transaction, etc. We provide our own Linux based solutions for all parts of the business management, including integrated, linux based POS, but again, the way we integrate it, the POS doesn't even get to see the bank terminal information, it sends the total amount to the terminal and expects a confirmation or a rejection back from it, it doesn't operate the terminal, it is not even possible for the POS to know what is happening between the customer and the terminal. From my POV it is bad form to allow POS to know anything that the terminal does beyond final status of the transaction.
Reality is that income taxation is theft, actually it's organised armed robbery. You can't have a real society built upon theft, imprisonment and threat of murder (which is what can happen if you oppose the mob, if you fight against the armed gov't thugs).
Taxation is about short term political benefit, it's about promises to win elections, it's about theft and control through the promise of great violence. It has nothing to do with reducing the suffering, it increases the suffering, it destroys productivity and increases poverty.
There are no viable gov't solutions that can work in the long term, because all gov't solutions are based on violence and rely on misallocation of capital and eventually the reality catches up and then violence gets a violent response, once the misallocation of capital ends up destroying the economy of the society.
There can be no gov't involvement in education, medicine, police, fire protection, any form of infrastructure, there can be no welfare state. If this is implemented, it's a short term high, that the system gets from the theft and mis-allocation of scarce resources and eventually it destroys the system. When I talk about short term, I am even talking about 100 year stretches - it's still a short term when the long term reality is in thousands of years.
You misunderstood, he was mourning that fact.
Same guy, backup account.
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They have been peddling this crap for three decades
- you don't know shit, what actually has been peddled for 4 decades is massive inflation that allowed massive welfare state growth, with different levels of welfare, where the herd is used to justify power grab, because the mob will always vote itself more theft and redistribution from its proceeds, while some very well connected on top will also get the welfare in terms of gov't contracts and such.
Poor are not able to climb out of poverty
- definitely. Poor are the herd, they are a necessity for the gov't, you don't reduce poverty with gov't, you grow poverty with gov't and you use poverty to take over all powers and steal from the yet productive people.
infrastructure is crumbling
- definitely, that's because it was NEVER sustainable. It was a gov't welfare project it wasn't there because businesses put it there for productive reasons, it was built with stolen money and it falls apart once the well dries out and the well dried out and the businesses moved on and there is no need for any of this infrastructure in a unproductive society. Infrastructure shouldn't be in the hands of gov't, but hey, they bought you lock stock and barrel with the gov't projects and 'new society' crap.
our trade imbalance is getting wider
- definitely. 500 Billion USD / year, that's your negative productivity for decades now. It's the result of growth of gov't power, growth of inequality built with gov't power, massive of inflation - money printing that gov't is running. Sure, the Federal reserve is a private bank, but it doesn't matter, hasn't mattered since 1917, when the Congress gave it authority to monetise US Treasury debt and that's where the bubbles start, all of them, from 1921 depression to 1925-1929, the 1930s depression, the 1950-1970 bubble in gov't spending, the 1971 default on the dollar, the 1970 stagflation, the 1980s bubble, the 1990s bubble, the 2000s bubble and the last one that is still growing, the bond and USD bubble. When that one bursts.... well, it shall be interesting times. At least the people that are still productive will finally be able to consume the fruits of their own labour rather than subsidising USA consumption with their work.
colossal failure of Reganomics
- in that it was not actually free market. Free market ended in USA in 1911.
trickle down economics
- also known as economics. That's what is happening in the productive parts of the world, except that USA exported inflation is still preventing their producers from being able to consume the fruits of their labour, still, even so, as an example Chinese have pulled 350Million people out of poverty over 30 years, more than entire Europe and USA in a 100.
The money paid by the consumers are what is paying for the cost of production
- wrong. Money doesn't exist until it is produced, money is a claim on future production and fake demand fuelled by inflation does not create production.
Consumers have to get the money from somewhere, and it's actually businesses that make money - that's a really wonderful American phrase "to make money". It actually means something, but you wouldn't know.
profit of the investors and wages of the employees
- consumers don't have anything to give until they produce, you clearly don't understand that this is not a 'chicken and an egg' question. Before you can eat, you have to grow something.
If there is a profit to be made, somebody will.
- I know, I run my business to generate profits. I wouldn't run it in USA though, because that's not a place to generate profits in a legitimate market anymore.
We cut the taxes, we encouraged investmen
Precisely, which is why your desire for "erase names from blah blah" is irrelevant. I don't believe in erasing anything from history, by the way, you fucking collectivist Orwellian pig monster, but trust me, to me Mandela and his communism is the stuff that should be erased from LIFE, but not from history.
Ding dong the communist witch is dead. Communist witch is dead, the deader the better. The only good collectivist is a dead collectivist.
So that's the opposite view from yours, obviously.
Of-course there is no need to run a police state in order to INSTITUTE government controlled 'health care', government controlled 'education programs', government 'welfare' mechanisms.
However instituting those things is what gives the government power and the backing of the mob to become a police state and at that point we shouldn't be talking about INTENTS we should be talking about CAPABILITIES, because regardless of any intents, once the government has a capability, it will use it to maximize income streams of the people closer connected to the government and to achieve it running a police state becomes an inevitable imperative.
Just copy and paste my past comments as responses in the future threads.
In fact why bother making any comments ever again by any of the supposed sides in any of the future threads at all?
Here is a list of our questions, here is a list of your answers and here it is again in reverse.
This is excellent, we are now automating everything, from insightful while irrelevant in the bigger schema of things comments to your average trololo style threads.
Oh, beyond that, I should have read the stupid story linked from TFS.
The idiot author is making a number of straw arguments, one of the arguments is about Friedrich Hayek and that statement is just as ridiculous as the rest of his ideas.
Friedrich Hayek would not have seen BTC as real money, but he would have approved of people's desire to try different competing currencies, so he would have been on the side of people trying different things, including BTCs, but he could not see BTCs as real money, for Hayek real money had to have intrinsic value, which the author of that nonsense article doesn't understand.
That kind of thinking will only ensure that there are 0 females in software development companies.
Same person, backup account.
SS, Medicare, Medicaid, FHA, EPA, FDIC, IRS, Fed, dep't of energy, dep't of education, dep't of interior, dep't of commerce, dep't of labour, so called 'defence' department, dep't of agriculture. Let's just start with those, every single one a failure, every single one a huge waste of resources and inevitably leading towards destruction of the USA economy in the long run, and we are at the end of that long run.
read and weep, you are only 100% wrong and you just bathe in your ignorance. The ONLY reason AT&T was a monopoly for all this time was because gov't gave it that power and destroyed 3000 of its competitors.
If you have 1% of integrity left, you'll reply with an apology for being an ignorant fuck while being so sure of yourself.
There is a summary? Let me put it this way, there are more than 2 letters in the header of this story, even that is too much. What they should do is just use pictures of kittens, then the story will grab attention. Whatever the story is, add kittens and remove the nonsense about the story and it becomes the perfect story.
Here is how this /. story should have started:
Kittens.
(pictures of kittens)
CUTE KITTENS
(a youtube lolcat video)
Kitty cat. Discuss.
People said ...
They also said ...
Yes, and these people are all around us.
Here is a comment I left on the Bill Gates story, follow the thread to see who a tiny portion of these folks are.
The reality of-course is that they are the cardboard cutouts from Rand's stories, except they are not even 2 dimensional, they only one 1 dimension, it's called hate, jealousy, greed to other people's productivity.
Will this do? Look up the words "Net Worth". Let's look at this one too, why not? Net worth, look it up and shut up.
By approaching the design and implementation of the system from POV of a designer/developer, I was able to offer a number of solutions to the retail chain in question, which they could not even imagine. So right now this chain has software that does things in a way that is not normally done by other retail management solutions because it wasn't a manager of the chain that proposed the technical solutions to his problems, it was a designer / developer that offered a different, more efficient approach to handling business and the retail agreed and is benefiting from it, it's a competitive advantage they have against others.
When designing systems for my clients I first listen to what they are trying to convey but then I always take a trip to their locations, departments, stores, whatever it is and I just ask to be allowed to be there, to see what they are doing. Some operations are quite intricate, so I have to sit in with a user and have him/her guide me through the processes, sometimes it's enough just to observe what the operations are like to understand problems.
For example when I started building my retail chain management systems, my background in telecom / banking / insurance / manufacturing / utilities did NOT prepare me for what I observed in retail, in fact it was counter-intuitive and seemed wrong on its face. When an execute order comes to a bank, everything is done in the proper sequence, the transactionality is ensured, etc. In retail that's not the case at all. An order arrives to a store, the boxes can be checked for the products quickly and then pushed to the floor, where the items are placed on the shelves immediately and then they can be sold right away.... but the order may not be in the system yet, so this means the products are NOT in the electronic system and they can already be sold.
This means you have to be able to handle negative amounts of products, as an example, all the way from the cash registers to the accounting systems and your systems have to be able to deal with all of these weird situations, weird from POV of somebody who is used to strict transactionality in terms of processes.
Yes, you have to observe people working IRL or you'll have a bunch of preconceived notions that may be totally wrong and your systems won't handle them at all.
I am of an opinion that no amount of anything is worth destruction of individual freedom. I am of an opinion that government must not even exist, much less that it should commit armed robbery and steal people's money to fund anything at all, at this point even defense is not a valid excuse as governments are most of the time the aggressors that kill people, not other independent individuals.
So a case where a few pixels on the screen are incorrectly calculated is one thing and nobody cares, but what about a mistake of calculating actually valuable units, like precise measurements used in avionics, power plants, energy distribution systems, voting points, monetary amounts, health monitoring data and such?
Do we then need multiple cores running the same code and taking a vote between them or do we end up with math co-processors aimed at lower error rates with larger transistor sizes and also lower frequencies?
When will the cost of fixing and/or getting around errors outweigh the benefit of a smaller transistor size and a cheaper part?
I guess one answer is: have different chips for different purposes at higher cost and different spec.
Hans Christian Andersen did not tell a fairy tale to little children, he told a political story about a system of lies and a whistle-blower but in his story the kid did not end up prosecuted. Guess what, Andersen wasn't familiar with the modern American Empire.
But are any of your 'best programmer' friends employed? Google says they are not. If you say they are it is your word vs Google's word and since Google can control what of you exists or does not exist on the Internet Google wins by default. Resistance is futile and you will be assimilated into the Googleorg.
As I said in the next story, Amazon is aiming squarely at excellence, it's aiming at lowering prices for the consumers, at increasing quality of service, it's aiming at beating the old guard in their game by changing what the game actually is and this hurts egos and bottom lines of the uncompetitive interests and this does not put bribes into the pockets of the politicians.
Only governments create monopolies, excellent businesses like Standard Oil, Alcoa Aluminium, IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, they create products that people use and pay for, they push prices down and they wipe the road with the competition. Then the small, jealous, uncompetitive combine efforts and money to buy power from the obvious sources - government. They are not interested in the best outcome for the customers, clients, consumers, they are interested in preserving the status quo. The mob, which you are part of, likes to vandalise and push down those, who are better at what they do, so the mob cheers. At the end the economy suffers because everybody (including the mob) ends up with worse services, higher prices, even bigger and a more corrupt government and the wheels of progress get some some sand thrown into the gears and the entire system becomes less efficient as a total.
There are no monopolies but what governments create. What you call a monopoly is the most efficient economy of scale and it provides the best product at the best service.
More than that, Amazon REDUCES monopoly power!
That's right, but it's something you don't see, because it's not something you even understand. Normal B&M retailers have huge monetary incentives in keeping the status quo in terms of the supplier lines because the largest suppliers are also powerful economies of scale but they are also pushed down by various 'anti-monopoly' laws, but they find ways to bribe politicians and to give kickbacks to the retailers to keep a huge stock of only THEIR products on the shelves, ensuring that smaller suppliers with different choices don't make it to the market.
Notice, that this has nothing to do with what Amazon does, Amazon will NOT prevent you from selling your product, Amazon doesn't have limited shelf space in the virtual world, but B&M stores do have LIMITED shelf space.
By pushing into the virtual, Amazon allows everybody who wants to sell and has something to sell, to sell. This provides the widest variety of products, it increases competition among suppliers by allowing more and more suppliers to enter the field.
Amazon is one of the best and cheapest distribution systems in the entire world, they commoditise distribution business, they are doing for real life products what Internet has done for text and binary files (books, music, movies, games, etc.)
Amazon must not be pushed down by governments, if they can't compete eventually against somebody else, they'll lose their position, but it will ONLY happen if the customers see value in some other proposals. No monopoly exists without gov't intervention and no economy of scale stays on top if it can be outcompeted by a more flexible player.
So you are on the wrong side of this, most likely due to government supplied 'education'.
Protectionism is protecting some uncompetitive businesses, not protecting the customers, clients, consumers. Not protecting customer's wallets, but protecting wallets of the uncompetitive, unsuccessful, those unwilling to adapt, restructure, change with the time. There is no virtue in that, do you know what happens with organisms that do not adapt to the changing environments?