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“Amazon brags about this technique, which it calls ‘the fly-wheel.’ It brings in users with low prices and a large selection. This attracts merchants who are eager to sell to those users. The merchants’ dependence on these customers allows Amazon to extract higher discounts from those merchants, and that brings in more merchants, allowing the company to require even deeper discounts….”
— Jul 04, 2026 08:34PM
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Senator John Sherman, he of the Sherman Act, famously said in support of his bill: “If we will not endure a king as a political power we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessities of life. If we would not submit to an emperor we should not submit to an autocrat of trade, with power to prevent competition and fix the price of any commodity.”
— Jul 13, 2026 05:15AM