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- Amazon what is your business domain?

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Its scary what amazon will be in the future.

We need to break it.

Yes. It's at the point where it can strong-arm large chunks of the economy. That's too much power in the hands of a single for-profit entity.

They should only bring efficiencies and competition to a few places that 70 year olds in Washington permit them to?

This is not true. Amazon’s physical retail in NA has made a profit for a long time.

>Amazon retail operates at basically 0 margin.

This may have been true in the past but it's not an accurate any more. Especially the way you're phrasing it like how they don't make any money. Profit is low because they're using the cash flow to make further investment. Not because each item sold is not making any money.