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Pluralistic: Amazon is a ripoff (06 Nov 2023)


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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on November 6, 2023November 16, 2023Categories UncategorizedTags amazon, antitrust, attention rents, behavioral economics, beware of the leopard, cfpb, consumer welfare, drip pricing, economics, enshittification, ftc, greedflation, inflation, lina khan, monopoly, most favored nation, Personal Financial Data Rights, price gouging, rentseeking, scholarship, the algorithm, trustbusting4 Comments on Pluralistic: Amazon is a ripoff (06 Nov 2023)

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