Amazon.com is anti-competitive

http://www.smh.com.au/business/amazon-swallows-the-book-depository-20110705-1h00b.html

To put that in perspective, Amazon just gutted the oasis of book buyers for Australian readers in order to increase their market share they were losing from a geographic area they were giving shitty service to and asking too much for shipping.

I hate the world today, I will laugh when capitalism burns.

Capitalism might have its problems, but it's better than the alternative.

I dont recall there being only two options.

Capitalism with a lot of Trustbusting is possible

Large company discourages competition, news at eleven.

Well if you're a company and a competitor who is taking profits from you is in a position where you can buy them, common sense dictates that you buy them.

Funny that Capitalism contains within it a set of incentives to turn itself into something completely different. Apparently, when everyone;s competing the situation's fine. it's when someone actually wins that things go pear-shaped. War isn't meant to last forever, it's meant to end with the decisive victory of one side over another.

Huh, Amazon have always had supreme reliability and efficiency at delivering to me.

Capitalism is like chloresterol. Too little kills, some is really good for you, too much kills.

^^

Yeah, I use Amazon all the time with no particular problems.

^^ Depends on the type of chloresterol, surely?

^ This.

Not in Australia apparently.

I've never had issues with them. The only thing I can think of was when this one package (a Gilly suit) got delayed by like a week in California. I'm more willing to blame California for that.