The legal framework that allowed the creation of Amazon also enabled corporate concentration in every other sector in the economy, from big sectors like airlines, search and social networks to pharmaceuticals, to niche sectors like mail sorting software, mobile home production, private prison phone systems and web domain registration. As Jeff Bezos steps back, or does whatever it is he is doing, we should also recognize that this framework is falling apart. Amazon’s sister monopolies, Facebook and Google, are facing existential antitrust suits in which the government is asking for them to be broken up. Amazon itself is being investigated by the Connecticut attorney general,
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