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[–] 9C5F0DBCBA49 ago 

I agree, but there's a fine line between helping small business and kneecapping big business. Society cannot advance if we make it our work to narrow the gap between the successful and the less-successful by dragging the successful down. We can't kneecap successful big business to help small business. It won't even help small business and it will retard our economic output. The only proper thing is to make sure that the government isn't doing anything to tilt the playing field one way or the other, then let the market sort it out.

[–] Seer1965 [S] ago 

That is very much a key point.

Second is there merit to the Sherman Act when monopolies use unfair tactics? Has gov't corruption and huge value contracts favored heavily a number in Silicon Valley?

[–] 9C5F0DBCBA49 ago 

What is "unfair"? The problem with that term is that it's subjective. To the leftist it's unfair that Amazon is big, so that all by itself is reason to take government action as far as they're concerned. If you step back and analyze the entire situation, though, what the leftist really wants is to overturn the will of the people. That's what they always want because they're authoritarian in nature.

How is taking action against Amazon "subverting the will of the people," you might wonder? It is because Amazon got huge because people freely chose to shop there rather than somewhere else. No matter how they word it, and leftists are skilled at silver-tongued doublespeak, the net result of kneecapping Amazon is to force people into making other shopping choices they wouldn't have freely made on their own.