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adfskghnmionio··on Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the world
>My employer is moving workloads to ARM on AWS as it’s much better for price/perf

It's a fool's errand to try to reason about Amazon's pricing. We don't have figures about how much a Graviton costs to build or to run, but we do know AWS has staggeringly high margins across the board. They have huge headroom to make price cuts if they want their homegrown solution to win.

And perhaps it is better! I have no doubt it's a good CPU. But we can't infer that from pricing.

adfskghnmionio··on Amazon doesn't 'employ' drivers, but hired firms to prevent them from unionizing
A capitalist monopoly is a conspiracy in favor of the firm. Unions are a conspiracy in favor of the people.
adfskghnmionio··on Amazon doesn't 'employ' drivers, but hired firms to prevent them from unionizing
The government is compelled to argue against itself at trial. Manufacturers are compelled to inspect their own products. Banks are compelled to limit the money they lend out. Employers are compelled to allow unionization.

If we never compelled people to do something they didn't want to do, we would have no need for laws.

Besides, Amazon is allowed to fight unionization. The problem is using dishonest or abusive means to combat it. That means no classifying employees as contractors, no Pinkertons, and no Two Minutes Hate.