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holy sh*t what a comment!!! why stop here though, lets make ecommerce an essential utility and turn over amazon to the government too! and of course we all need to go somewhere so we should turn over tesla and all the other car companies to the government too! heck now that I re-read your comment I think we should forbid profit altogether and make sure all businesses in America are non-profit, utility-for-all!

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__loam 4 days ago | parent [-]

Amazon does have an oligopoly over utility computing along with ms and Google. They run like 60% of the internet on AWS.

Tesla obviously does not have a monopoly on cars or even electric vehicles.

You can believe whatever you like but it's simple economics that big tech companies have monopoly power over their markets. Denying that is pretty baffling but this is Hackernews so I'm not sure what I expected.

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whatever1 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t think that you can make the case that the existence of aws has made access to cloud services more expensive.

There is a ton of vendors who are competing on price. Although to be fair once you pick a vendor you are locked in their ecosystem. There is definitely friction in the market.

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bdangubic 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

you may want to move to another country though mate… free market, we all have alternatives (kagi, bing, chapgpt for search, temu, target, walmart… for ecomm, azure/google/oracle/ali for cloud…) … if every successful business was eventually treated by the likes of you as “utility” it’d be a hoot of a society

	▲	__loam 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		The US has been enforcing anti-trust law for over a century including against tech companies like Microsoft.