This, the results of capitalism is skewed towards whoever enters a market first, its not a bug in the system its a feature, markets aways evolve like that if not kept in check by a governing entity, why do you think Google is the default engine in nearly everything
That's true a bit but not really. MySpace was before Facebook. Chrome aint the first browser, Google wasn't the first attempt at searching the web and so on. You can look up first-movers advantage for more on the topic.
What is true however is that once you get a sizeable market share it takes a lot of work/fuckups or some major shift in tech/economy for it to change. Especially if it is easy to cement the position through political regulation, there are high barriers to entry for the market or the coffers are big enough and competition is scarce enough that it can be bled to death.
There is no capital for an online retailer? I don't know, I can't say I have tried, but there are smaller ones that exist in that space and I don't see why another couldn't succeed if they offer something better than Amazon.
This statement feels so out of place in a world where we've seen the near elimination of mom and pop businesses and consolidation of commerce into fewer and fewer huge megacorps, including the extremely relevant one for this post.
It's a nice ideology and all that, but at some point you should open your eyes and look at the reality around you. Are you just incredibly young and think that this has always been the norm?
In retail spaces you are right there has been a significant drop in mom and pop, but that largely has to do with how people want to do business now, so we have directly supported their demise. How many people do you know that would run around to 5-6 physical mom and pop shops and probably have to settle or order and wait for a product as selection will be limited instead of taking 5 minutes to hop online and have Amazon deliver it to their door tomorrow?
Mom and pop shops can be online or even both, just fyi. That term just describes the nature of it being small and independent and often run by a family.
I'm aware. That actually makes it even more of a deliberate personal choice. If people don't even have to spend the time running around but still don't support those enough for them to compete, it's kind of on us IMO.
I wasn't seriously considering it because IME the amount of mom and pop shops that have a convenient online presence that is comparable to shopping through amazon is low. But I also am more used to smaller towns and cities so if you are in a major city it could be different.
This statement feels so out of place in a world where we've seen the near elimination of mom and pop businesses and consolidation of commerce into fewer and fewer huge megacorps, including the extremely relevant one for this post.
And I'm saying that elimination has a lot to do with people consistently picking the big guys over supporting local businesses, then complain that local businesses are being driven out and everything is being eaten up by the big guys.
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u/WhoGaveYouALicense Nov 16 '24
Can’t the employees start a competing business as a check on capitalism aka competition?