Price fixing is rare because you gain so much by defecting from the cartel.
crashfrog
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"Competitors choosing" is usually considered to be price fixing
No? It isn’t?
Where do you think prices come from?
Amazon et al aren't the only US companies guilty of this or other anti-competitive behaviors
How is this anti-competitive?
“Essentially” is the load-bearing weasel word here that allows this story to blame Amazon for their competitors choosing to offer the same goods at higher prices.
You’re listing all of the reasons it’s not a monopoly - you can go almost anywhere else and buy the same good.
Therefore, I think Amazon has a literal monopoly in the tech industry right now, you're literally forced to buy from them
You literally weren’t and literally aren’t, so they’re literally not.
They have so aggressively and dominantly taken over the supply chain market that no other tech company can currently compete with them in any aspect at all.
If nobody was in competition with them, they’d be raising their prices.
Sure; an important part of this context is that the Irish bombed more hospitals than the Israelis have
I don’t think you have to be an expert to know that the Irish Potato Famine wasn’t a situation where potato’s were all there were to eat. I think you just have to be someone who didn’t fail out in the 5th grade.
That’s an insane misapprehension of the potato famine
How does the joke reference that?
No, the famine happened after. You’ve got it backwards.
The famine was started because of a widespread potato blight. It’s not called the Potato Famine because that’s all they could eat; it’s called that because that’s what they couldn’t eat.
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They don’t, in fact.