Just remember one thing- and I’m saying this as someone who thinks Amazon should be broken up- when the feds broke up Ma Bell, what ended up happening until the cell phone era was that there were just a bunch of regional monopolies instead of one national one.
So this may not be all that effective overall even if it happens. If the Amazon retail arm is spun off from, AWS, both of them will still have such huge market shares that things won’t change all that much.
A big difference is that Telephone/Internet providers are natural monopolies. Competing requires building duplicate infrastructure to every client and so that naturally results in local monopolies. This isn’t the case for Amazon.
Just remember one thing- and I’m saying this as someone who thinks Amazon should be broken up- when the feds broke up Ma Bell, what ended up happening until the cell phone era was that there were just a bunch of regional monopolies instead of one national one.
So this may not be all that effective overall even if it happens. If the Amazon retail arm is spun off from, AWS, both of them will still have such huge market shares that things won’t change all that much.
Their individual business units will not be able to subsidize others, though.
Oh yeah, I get that, but they will still essentially be monopolies in their own fields, at least for the foreseeable future.
A big difference is that Telephone/Internet providers are natural monopolies. Competing requires building duplicate infrastructure to every client and so that naturally results in local monopolies. This isn’t the case for Amazon.