That’s pretty hyperbolized but you are describing private label products, which are important elements in driving down consumer costs and still have to compete with higher quality name brands. Do you think private label products like kirkland signature or amazon basics are inherently abusive?

I am curious to hear your thoughts on how aggregated demand marketplaces increase competition and market choice by reducing distribution scale needs for small businesses

The various Amazon suits. It’s a stretch to categorize Amazon as a monopoly, certainly to categorize it as one that harms consumers. The marketplace is a competitive advantage that they should be able to profit from to the extent they add value. It is actually trivial for consumers to shop elsewhere

Well the issue with Khan is she attempted to pursue a version of antitrust theory that wasn’t backed up by corporate law, but still pursued those cases she had no chance of winning. “Block all mergers”/“bigger is worse” binary thinking is bad policy.

the whole idea that you should pick an undergrad major based on money alone is straightforwardly idiotic. NOBODY knows what labor market returns in anything are going to be over the next 40 years, least of all 18-year-olds

They take advantage of the fact that nutrition and health is complex and full of confounding variables and offer a simple explanation that you can click a “buy” button to solve

Create problem; sell solution

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