FTC files “the big one,” a lawsuit alleging Amazon illegally maintains monopoly::FTC: Amazon “extracts enormous monopoly rents from everyone within its reach.”

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    1 year ago

    …can we just skip to the part where Amazon pays less than a fractional percent of their profit in fines and then proceeds with business as usual? I just feel like the charade has grown tiresome at this point.

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      You sound jaded.

      Don’t let the billionaires wear down the will to fight.

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      Ah well, better not try then. Guess we just have to learn to like the taste of corporate boot.

      Maybe some more wanking about some glorious revolution that will never happen will make that boot taste better.

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      I feel the exact same way with celebrities or the uber wealthy and criminal trials. Just skip to the part where they pay .000000001% of their net worth n fines or bail or whatever and get off scot free.