Amazon already faces a major antitrust challenge from the FTC.

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    7 months ago

    Nationalize Amazon. Yes all of it.

    The number of government functions that use AWS alone makes it a matter of national security.

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      Roll all of the Amazon marketplace into the fucking postal service. Clogging up the damn systems anyways. Might as well fucking turn the warehouses into sorting centers for mail too and pay their workers well, have benefits, a pension, ac, and bathroom breaks.

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      7 months ago

      There are other countries that also rely on Amazon services. Mationalizing the company would be a major diplomatic and economic blow to the USA.

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      Morally this is the right thing. But I worry about governments taking private assets and property. Seems like the US gov could just start their own competing version on of Amazon. And this would mean competition, which is good for the consumer.

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        Nah, taking property from billionaires is good, it leaves them with less capability to buy politicians.