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Protectionism stagnates societies, slows innovation and disruption while benefiting incumbents.

Please tell me more about how Amazon progresses society?

Incredible access to products from over the globe. Like google democratized access to information, really.

Then superb opportunities for sellers on its market place: lots of small business started there.

And let's not talk about their other investments and creations like AWS.

The citizens only come the US for high paying jobs because there aren’t enough innovative businesses in Europe to support strong software wages. There aren’t enough innovating businesses because of the tendency of the people to reach for regulation for everything.

You can’t pass a law that demands your economy be better without somehow actually making it better for businesses.

You are confusing protectionism with fairness.