It sounds bad for Musk, Trump, and Republicans, since they support corrupt crony capitalism, in which you have to bribe Trump/Musk to do business ... the antithesis of free markets https://bsky.app/profile/niemanlab.org/post/3lj4day6rrl2q
If Bezos continues down this road, hope he's prepared for the Post to go bankrupt. The Post depends on its reputation for quality journalism to attract readers, soil the brand and it becomes the DC equivalent of the NY Post, and readers will desert it - but it is ill prepared to become a tabloid.
The "Free Market" is a con.
It's sold as "market forces" keeping competition fair and prices low. The reality is the same as any game where there are no rules: The biggest guy wins by stomping everybody else down.
We need the employees of the Post to buyout Bezos - news organization co-ops run by employees is working at various places around the globe - someone should be exploring that option here. Since he’s losing money wouldn’t Bezos go for this?
Private monopolies like Amazon, Google and Meta are antithetical to free markets, ie a market where the barrier to entry is low. If there's no competition then it's not a free market. I guess this fact cannot be expressed in WaPo, like the disaster in Chernobyl couldn't be published in Pravda.
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When do we bust out the guillotines to slice up some cake for us?
It's sold as "market forces" keeping competition fair and prices low. The reality is the same as any game where there are no rules: The biggest guy wins by stomping everybody else down.