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RE: Is Amazon Too Big? Monopolies and the Price of Convenience.
Wow that is an amazing answer, worthy of a post in itself. Can't really add much.
The idea of short sightedness applies not just to business but to government too. It seems to be recurring theme in modern society.
It is partly also responsible for the type of boom and bust cycles that we see in major economies too.
boom bust cycles are also, always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, (along with our human condition of course)
both business and government are shortsighted institutions by design.
Only the next earnings report, or the next elections matter
Not sure how this fits into the topic.
well, I am not sure how I am going to make you privvy to it then.
I did try, if you like, there's a more elaborate post in this same comment thread...
(responding directly to the comment that you did)
I am happy to try to explain further, but I don't understand why you think a discussion of the boom bust cycle, and it's ultimate or root cause doesn't fit into a discussion about same,
and well,
I am unsure where to go from here.
happy to stay out of your posts and comments if you would prefer
No don't stay out and I don't mean to seem harsh it is a fun discussion (I didn't mean any harm) I'm just not sure how it fits in directly and wanted you to elaborate:)
did you see the other comment and feel like you understood the connection?
Writing about these themes is not my game, only reading about them usually.
but I'll have to practise my communication skills around these topics, as I think I have plenty to add to this sort of conversation.
I think the effects of monetary policy are often dismissed as irrelevancies, when they are actually the root cause of the phenomenon in question, such as, in this case, the rise and rise of the mega-corp
would never have happened without the distortions caused by many years of zero interest rate policy.
No company could have done what amazon has done in a world with historically normal interest rates.
the capital would have wanted to see return on capital, if there was an alternative.
and as Bill Bonner calls it, Amazon is the river of no returns.
I'm not saying that amazon didn't do what they should have or anything else, just that they couldn't have done it without free money.
OK I get what you are saying now. Sometimes when there are a lot of comments it gets hard to keep track of what people said before and it can lead to confusion.
The interest rate thing is strange - I think there are a lot of knock on effects - not just in relation to megacorporations get larger amounts of money for next to nothing but also the effects on regular people.
The ultimate result is that regular people who make traditional savings and investments get very little returns. On the other hand the rich who can make their money work either by starting or investing in corporations have benefited.
One could argue that it creates a flow of money from the poor to the rich.
I argue that everything in our modern world is designed to do that very thing, mostly very successfully.
sorry I didn't see your comment until right now.
Did I mention Bill Bonner, he's very rich, but he's really educational about how the system is constructed.
His daily free email is the best value on the net, if you can scroll past the ads.
I think I did mention him, but I think you might really like his work.
No haven't heard of him. Will have a look for him.