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Erm, I quite like American tech. Google is an unbelievable resource. Provided for free. You want to ban it? I wonder how much business it drives to British companies. Also I couldn't do my job with out it.

Amazon taking over all our businesses? That's a bold claim, any stats to back that up. A family member of mine runs a business on Amazon. You'd like to kill her business? There is literally no other platform that does something like fba.

Also the reason Amazon and Google are successful here in the UK (and everywhere they are allowed to operate) is because they are way better than the competition.

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> I couldn't do my job with out it.

Yes. That is the point. The need exists. European companies will offer that services creating high quality jobs in Europe and they will follow European cultural norms instead of American ones.

> There is literally no other platform that does something like fba.

That is the monopoly part promoted by the USA and financed with public money. Amazon is a monopoly protected by a friendly but in the end foreign power that has misaligned interests.

I can assure you that if tomorrow Alibaba grew to challenge that number one position, it will be banned from doing business in the USA.

The services are needed, here, in the USA and in China. USA has its own tech companies, China has its own tech companies, Europe has not anything at that level because USA just buys anything Europe creates backed up by USA tax-payers money. That is not fair.

What are european cultural norms?

Are you really trying to claim Amazon is financed by tax payer money in the USA? Can you provide examples of this investment?

Fba is monopoly because Amazon took a huge bet and invented it. Same with prime.

> Are you really trying to claim Amazon is financed by tax payer money in the USA? Can you provide examples of this investment?

They don't pay taxes and pay workers like shit. The federal government gets no revenue, and still has to increase social spending and policing to avoid workers burning the place down, protecting Bezos' investment. Then there's Blue Origin, which involves direct handouts from Uncle Sam.

Google does not provide that service for free. Where do you think the $27 billion Google search revenue comes from ? Also you might want to read https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capit... The reason Amazon an Google are successful is that they are unopposed monopolists that acquire or destroy any business that might pose a risk to them.

> not provide that service for free

You are right there. We are the product, we give our data, we give our attention, it is not free.

> unopposed monopolists that acquire or destroy any business that might pose a risk to them

Good point. That is also true for other ones like Facebook that purchased Whatsapp just to keep the monopoly in personal communications.

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