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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Actually, of all the tax payer money being spent by the US government, expenditures investigating issues of antitrust are the ones I begrudge them the LEAST. Nobody else has the legal authority TO investigate. And while waiting until antitrust violations cause poor people to go hungry before goverment intervention may FEEL more righteous, it also sends the message that anything short of human cruelty is fair game in the business world. Why even HAVE the antitrust rules if the authorities mandated to ensure their compliance can't investigate?
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Exactly.
Plus, US Antitrust is about *consumer* protection, not "protecting" one company from another.
And considering how bad the legal system is about restitution, early action is a must.
"Thou shall not get away with it."
No excuses or fingerpointing allowed.
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BTW, there *is* a government agency tasked with monitoring and acting on company versus company competition issues--The FTC. And it should be noted that, despite all the whining about Amazon practices, nothing actionable has emerged from the FTC. A good sign of the merit of all those "predatory" loss-leader pricing accusations.