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Great for Amazon, bad for everybody else. You think Amazon is going to share that cargo space with competitors? Absolutely not. While other retail stores run dry on stock because they're all competing over the same shipping lanes, Amazon will have plenty of supply with its own fleet of ships and planes. The world takeover of Big Tech just took another leap forward.

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That is zero-sum thinking. It's my impression from the article that by building their own stuff they are adding to total capacity, at least to some extent.

For example, imagine how bad it would be if Amazon were competing for space with all the other container ships going to LA, instead of going to another port.

Or suppose they were competing for cargo containers instead of building their own?

There are probably still bottlenecks in different places, though.

Who's to say they don't turn around and sell the space and infrastructure as a service. Clearly there's a premium to be paid to get goods into the states by non-traditional means.

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This is the Amazon way.

> Great for Amazon, bad for everybody else. You think Amazon is going to share that cargo space with competitors? Absolutely not.

Well, think about it. This is almost like how AWS started. Build infrastructure that can support yourself, then productize it, and sell it. Private ports, private airstrips, private boats, private planes… a container is a container!

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