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When watching the video one thing I found interesting was the FTC case that focuses on how Amazon favors its search results "Selling on Amazon is like going to the casino" I understand and found it interesting that they made a methapor to a casino. This is true because it's where everyone goes to make money. It's the same thing when you sell shoes on eBay, you keep going back because of how easy it is. It's very easy to get addicted to Amazon, even when scrolling and finding something you didn't know you needed. Which in the video explains how the house always wins in this case Amazon always wins. I have fallen into this trap of Amazon because I go in and find something but find it cheaper in-store or its there's more tax due to you only getting one item, oh and let me add the shipping cost to it.

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One interesting point that I found from watching this video is how Amazon uses the concept of being a loss leader to sacrifice profits for the purposes of reinvestment into their company, so that they can keep seeing the major growth that the company has been seeing since the mid 2000s. This strategy has been very advantageous for Amazon because they have been able to provide the cheapest products for all of their customers who are looking to quickly get items. While they are not keeping the largest amount of money for their own pockets, they have essentially undermined the necessity of small businesses that would be providing the same products to their customers. If they continue to do what they have done, we will continue to see small businesses close and therefore the consumer will lose their freedom of choice in what they purchase.

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I watched the video “How Amazon Makes You Pay More For Everything,” by the non-profit organization, More Perfect Union. I researched that More Perfect Union is a nonprofit education, advocacy, and journalism organization with a mission to empower the working class. The organization uses activism to win policy fights that support families and the working class. The main purpose of the video is to gain traction for a current lawsuit against Amazon. Amazon is essentially being sued that the company is a monopoly. The main spokesperson in the video uses personal experience and the experiences of others to back this idea. She makes it clear that she supports the lawsuit. She uses an emotional tone throughout her speech and heavily uses visuals, news articles and stats to push her thoughts to the audience. She often quotes studies which builds credibility and trust between her and the audience. I thought it was interesting to understand how Amazon works because I too have faced similar uses to those described during my personal use of Amazon. I thought the speaker did fantastic as I completely agreed with the lawsuit at the end of the video.

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This video explains the competition between Google and Meta. One thing I found interesting was when they discussed the Double Click feature. This is a marketing strategy they developed to better understand what viewers were looking for. It was used for advertisements, and they sold the information they gathered to other advertisers. This was used across a number of different social media platforms due to Meta's ownership of so many. This is interesting to me because many users were unaware that their information was being sold.

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"Amazon Is A Monopoly, So Why Are It's Profit's So Small" is produced by the Wall Street Millennial which is not only a youtube channel, but also a podcast. Their mission is to educate millennials on topics such as business, finance, and technology. The video goes into the fact that while Amazon is incredibly powerful and often called a monopoly, its profits are small because it chooses to reinvest most of its money. Many say that Amazon is an "incompetent monopoly" or they have a "long-term plan". In reality, instead of focusing on profit, Amazon puts money into growing its business, expanding its delivery and logistics networks, and improving its cloud services like AWS. The competitive nature of retail forces Amazon to keep prices low, which further reduces how much profit it can make, despite its huge market share. I found it very interesting that their is an anti-trust case against Amazon that has 17 states on the litigation. The use of videos, photos, graphs, questions, and numbers helped keep me engaged through the course of a fast but information filled video as well as help me form my own opinions. I was able to gain an idea of what Antitrust laws were and came to the sense that the laws need to be enforced so large companies cant play the system and work around them.

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After watching the video "Google, Facebook, Amazon and the Future of Antitrust Laws", it talks a lot about Antitrust laws. One thing that I found really interesting regarding Antitrust laws is when John Newman said "Antitrust has gone from being this completely sleepy backwater discipline that was just a few people talked about to being very much in the public news." This quote stood out to me because I feel like it's John Newman making a call to the public with regards to awareness on the law. After watching this video, this taught me that there definitely needs to be more enforcement on these laws especially with these specific big time companies in this day and age. So many people use these companies in their everyday lives and it makes it crazy to think about. All in all, this video really brought Antitrust laws to my attention especially because I haven't learned much about it before.

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The video "Google, Facebook, Amazon And The Future of Antitrust Laws" to me, was a greatly informative video as it's not something I've known much about previously. It begins by running through the deep history of these laws and where the originally came from. John D Rockefeller and J.P Morgan Played large roles here. They were part of a movement that thought "bigger businesses were better businesses". Basically taking later industries and creating smaller firms or those into trusts. In the span of 9 years from 1895-1904 over 2000 manufacturing firms merged into 157 corporations. At one point within the video a professor from the University of Memphis stated that "there is a difference between having a law on the books and having a law actually be in-forced". I felt this was so important for this video because of how the agencies could take that law and do whatever they wanted to pretty much. That was because the government would touch it briefly but it constantly was getting put aside, never truly being in-forced.

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In the video "How Amazon Makes You Pay More For Everything," the channel "More Perfect Union" the video starts with the "main character", or narrators personal story involving Amazon. This anecdote sets the stage for some of the points of the video while instantly grabbing engagement. Another way the video smartly displays its opinion is the smart editing throughout, such as when it talks about "Amazon not facing the discipline of having competitors". While talking about this, it has videos of the founder Jeff Bezos engaging in different bizarre of extremely expensive actions. This contrast helps push the point across further without directly stating it. The main focus of this video were the technical practices that Amazon uses to force a monopoly, like the "Box Selling" and extreme insistence on Prime to impose a 50% tax on sellers. This paints an easy and concise to understand way how these practices lead to inflated prices and harm smaller businesses. Finally, The final statement of the video “if you can't join 'em and can't beat 'em, you gotta break 'em up,” pushes the authors view on the matter, which they hope the viewer agrees with due to the evidence and arguments made.

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Fire Team: In the video it discusses many different examples of news outlets and how Google and Facebook have an impact. They have gained control over what news is being shown. Google and Facebook have around $260 billion dollars in ad revenue today and are are able to control this revenue from their huge success. Even when Instagram started gaining more popularity Meta who owns Facebook now also bought Instagram. This just shows how powerful the platform is and wants to stay on top of competition. Meta now though has so much control of what news is shown. By working with Google who surveillances of users on what their doing and what information they're searching. These platforms have a big influence and can even sabotage others. Technology makes receiving news so much different now. Especially how smaller news outlets can barely even survive do to the competition and power Google and Facebook has.

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This video explains the competition between Google and Meta. One thing that I found interesting was when they were talking about the DoubleClick feature. This is a marketing strategy they had created to get a better idea of what the viewers were looking for. It was used for advertisements and sold the information they obtained to sell to other advertisers. This became used over a variety of social media because of Metas involvement in this as well because Meta owns many social media outlets. This is interesting because many individuals do not know how their information is used for these marketing tactics on many platforms. As this is happening other smaller companies such as newspaper companies cannot keep up with Google.

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After watching the video "Amazon is a Monopoly, why are its profits so small", I was surprised to learn that Amazon only profits around 15 billion dollars despite bringing in over 500 billion. Specifically, one interesting thing I learned is that Amazon will actually sometimes lose money on their Prime program. The video states that if a customer orders several items with free delivery, then Amazon may actually lose some of their profitability. I was surprised when I heard this because I expected a company as big as Amazon to be more on top of ensuring that they don't sacrifice profit when they do not have to. I assumed before watching the video that the Prime service would have enough customers to make up for lost revenue. This however was not the case. Amazon could make up for these revenue losses by either increasing the price of the Prime service or getting rid of it altogether. Both however would harm the consumers. Overall, the video was super interesting, and I learned a lot about Amazon and their struggles to make more profit off of what they bring in annually. I did not know anything about their profit margins beforehand.

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In the video "Amazon Is A Monopoly, So Why Are Its Profits So Small?" by Wall Street Millennial, the creator examines the paradox of Amazon's dominance in the market despite its low profit margins. One specific point discussed is Amazon's significant investment in logistics, with over $40 billion spent on fulfillment and delivery infrastructure in recent years. This illustrates how Amazon prioritizes long-term growth and efficiency over immediate profits. While this strategy allows them to keep prices low and attract customers, it limits profitability. The reliance on AWS for higher profits contrasts with the thin margins in retail, prompting the question: is Amazon's long-term growth strategy sustainable, or could it backfire if market conditions change? This analysis encourages viewers to consider the broader implications of Amazon's business model. Additionally, it is important to question the motivations behind information presented to us. In this case, the significant investment Amazon makes in logistics, as highlighted in the video, invites questions about the company's long-term strategies and the potential consequences for market competition.

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This video takes a deep dive into Meta and Google's dominance and their ability to eliminate competition. Google has extensive information on their users, from how they interact on and off their platform to their demographic information. They then turn this data into information that would be sold to advertisers. This is a complete breach of privacy that most users, even myself, are not aware of. Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is a technology company that owns and operates several major social media platforms. These two work together to form a monopoly, the dominance over all media. I was most interested in the effect of this monopoly on local journalism and other small platforms. The video emphasized that media consolidation results in less coverage of community issues, a decline in journalistic integrity, and a prioritization of profit over public service. These small platforms could never compete or survive in the current media environment.

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The video "How Amazon Makes You Pay more for Everything" focuses on Amazon's monopolistic ways. This video highlights how Amazon only serves Amazon and isn't looking for the best interest of the buyers and sellers. Throughout the video, the lawsuit filed against Amazon by the FTC is mentioned. One interesting part I found when she was discussing this court case is that Amazon "artificially inflates prices on and off amazon", by forcing their sellers to sell their products for more on Amazon, but not allowing them to sell it for less anywhere else. As an Prime Member myself, I was most surprised to find out how Amazon forces it sellers pay for "FBA" service fees, to then earn a "Prime Badge" to then be able to sell their products as "Prime" products, which are typically the first results that people see when they search. Seller in a sense have to oblige to these expensive requirements to have their products be well promoted. Lastly I was shocked to discover that the seller fees are what pays for their fast and efficient shipping operation. Over all this video plays into many peoples emotions as Amazon shoppers themselves. This video highlights and presents the harsh reality of Amazon's corrupt monopoly of the online market place and the consequences it has on buyers and especially sellers.

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In the video "Google, Facebook, Amazon, and the Future of Antitrust Laws" discusses how antitrust works. It begins by discussing how and why antitrust laws we established. These laws were put in place to break up Rockefeller and JP Morgan from having a monopoly on oil and steel. These laws were successful for a short amount of time in the 19th century. Current-day technology companies hold so much control over our data and our everyday lives. I feel the author was trying to persuade the audience to believe that enforceable antitrust laws would benefit the current-day economy. Something interesting that I noticed from the video was that Delta, American, United, and Southwest Airlines hold a monopoly on air travel at 77.5 percent. I feel that this is the reason why air travel is so expensive and why you always seem to be on one of those flights.

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In the video "Google, Facebook, Amazon And The Future of Antitrust Laws," we take a look in on if the major companies have taken a lead to become a monopoly. The author of the video did a great job in informing me by using a lot of pictures and videos to hold my attention. Asking a lot of questions throughout helped me stop and think about my own opinion on the subject of the video. From a persuasive aspect, they talk about JP Morgan and Rockefeller, stating they thought that the big businesses were the best. These really gave a great example on how these companies led a monopoly, and their similarities to the companies many use today like Facebook, Google, and Amazon especially. Compiling whole industries into single firms is not something good for the economy, as thousands of smaller companies business depletes. Something interesting I found in the video was "The blockbuster case of this era was AT&T." This came as a surprise to me. As someone who uses this provider, growing up, I was always aware of other services and thought they were quite large. I never knew that under the Reagan administration, they took a stand to implement different carriers to be competitors to AT&T. Though I enjoy using all the platforms talked about in the video, it is definitely important for competition throughout all the markets in the United States. Single people or companies having power over the whole market defeats the entire purpose of the country. I found a suggested video after watching this one being "Google, Facebook, Amazon - The rise of the mega-corporations | DW Documentary," which I thought gave a great example on the rise of these whales in the economy. Here is the link if you would like to give it a watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy8ogOaKk4Y.

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In CNBC's video on anti-trust laws and how they might be used to regulate tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon, they look into the history of these laws and how they might be used to help break up our current conglomerated market. I think that Daniel Crane's line (speaking from the perspective of economists around the time of WWI and WWII), "we cannot afford to have antagonism between the federal government and big business [during a time of crisis]," and how the government never really went back to its previous level of regulation that saw so much positive growth and innovation, is really telling of how we got to the point we're at. Once we hit WWI, there wasn't really any downtime left to be able to focus on monopoly busting when crisis after international crisis started cropping up and distracting the general public. Now that we have been in this constant state of involvement in war and conflict for so long and generations have grown up with it in the background, the general population has stopped taking the excuses and are looking into what can be done about large tech companies that veritably control the future of our planet. I think that the video did a really good job of showing why the government has to enforce anti-trust laws strictly for the protection of consumers and new innovators on the scene.

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As I watched, “Local News is Being Demolished by Corporate Greed”, I noticed how the author interviewed different people like business owners to help explain how they try to maintain their business. One owner explained that local newspapers should watch over local governments and if there are no reporters, they will do what they want to do. The author used data and statistics to show the collapse of journalism. A fact that stood out to me was print ad revenue decreased over $3 billion dollars. This means that other media platforms like Google are gaining these viewers and funds. I thought it was very interesting to hear that so many newspaper businesses are struggling due to the advancements in technology. The traditional way of reading news is so different now and will continue to change.

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I found this video really interesting. Newspaper companies throughout the US have been going out of business due to big companies like Google and Meta. To stay in business newspaper companies relied on business ads to keep afloat, however once digital advertising became a thing this slowly shut down their revenue and eventually shut down their business. Google and Meta acquired this revenue through surveillance capitalism and DoubleClick. Surveillance Capitalism allowed these companies to obtain data no one else had and personalize ads to people based on their searched, interactions off the platform, and demographic information. Overall, this video was really informative as to why we don't see many newspapers anymore.

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Technology and content is what is spent to keep their websites up and running. Amazon Prime Video is why the content section of the revenue breakdown is so high. All other expenses the video states are normal for any company, even the sales and marketing section. The one thing that differs is the technology and content expenses. A lot of companies have stores online, but Amazon is the biggest online retailer in the world. You can’t just go to an Amazon store and get what you need. In today's world, I am pretty surprised there aren’t more online companies like Amazon. Amazon has taken full advantage of this ever-evolving world of technology. They have continued to grow and this can be seen in the content expenses. The video mentions that this is such a high expense for Amazon and much higher than any other companies because of the prime video. It was pretty interesting to learn about how much it costs these companies to keep companies like them running. I always think that companies make so much money off this movie and show platforms because all they do is post already-produced content, but the video broke down the costs and I was surprised. A total of $36,213 is spent on technology and content for Amazon. The video taught me that this prime video membership affects fulfillment costs drastically. Due to the subscription Prime Video members getting free shipping on orders from Amazon, this increases fulfillment costs drastically. The video mentions one significant fact I found super interesting about this topic. They mentioned that customers can order many products with this free shipping subscription, which could exceed the subscription cost, causing Amazon to lose a lot of money. I feel this is not a very good business strategy, and it surprised me to think that such a high-tech, advanced company can have gaps like this in profit.

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Something I found really interesting from the video was that Facebook used its influence to censor news stories from Australia and Canada. It was assumed that Facebook did this as a negotiation tactic as the speaker puts it "go overboard." And it was not just Face Book and out side of the United States. They mention that the same thing happened in California with google and how they had blocked people's access to news sites to push back against a "state bill" which would have made companies like google to pay "publishers for distributing news content."

It was also interesting to hear a story from a small town local news business, which has been affected by the growth of the internet and how it is driving out local news as well. I noticed that this video was about "Tech Giants" and how they are using their influence to gain more control. Over all I found the video to be very informative and some what surprising.

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One interesting point I noticed in the video "Amazon Is A Monopoly, So Why Are It's Profit's So Small?" was Amazon's lowest price policy. This policy once prevented sellers from listing their products at lower prices on other websites compared to the prices on Amazon. This may seem good for consumers, because it keeps prices down on Amazon, but in the long run it could hurt competition and innovation in the selling market. Amazons strategies focuses on expanding market share rather than making a quick profit. This could make it harder for smaller competitors to succeed in the market. This may also limit consumer choices since smaller companies might struggle to compete on price. This policy also shows how complex modern antitrust issues are. It's important to think about the long term impact big companies have on the overall market. I think that sellers should not be limited because we do not want to hurt smaller businesses. As an avid online shopper, I always try to find the best deals before purchasing something and do not like that amazon is regulating what price sellers can list their products for on other sites.

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"Google, Facebook, Amazon and the Future of Antitrust Laws" effectively educates and convinces viewers with a well-done presentation of information, history, and opinion. It focuses on the market power of tech companies with information about market share and revenues. The video highlights major antitrust case examples such as Standard Oil and AT&T. The video offers a historical analogy for today’s big tech monopolies. Economists, jurists, and policymakers give expert advice on how antitrust laws are insufficient to govern the digital economy, a cliche that gives the impression that they need to be changed. He solves the problem by addressing what would occur when you are a monopolist, for instance, and how there is less competition, innovation, and protection of privacy. As a viewer, this convinces me that stricter regulation would benefit consumers and small businesses. In addition, the video takes a balancing position, recognizing both sides of these companies, to give the argument greater credibility.

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Google and Meta have billions in revenue per year and are most successful when these platforms are controlling what they are distributing but newspapers companies are getting put out of business. Google had constant surveillance on what users were doing on their platform and demographic information and then turned it into information that they sell to advertisers. Meta bought instagram when it started to become an intense competitor with Facebook and then did the same thing for What’s App so now they are all under Meta. Google and Meta worked together in giving Meta information no one else has so there would not be competition between the two. Monopolies powers can sabotage any attempts that would refrain them from what they are doing and that would ultimately decrease their revenue.

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In this video there are many different speakers from different walks of life, but all coming together to persuade the viewer on one point: that Meta and Google are operating illegal monopolies. The case in point being that these companies are taking over journalism and news, causing newsrooms to lose billions of dollars in revenue each year and cutting jobs. As newsroom revenue is fueled by advertisements, advertisers used to pay to get their ad in print in newspapers. Now, advertisers pay Google or Meta to get their ads to pop up. Google and Meta also take news published by journalists or newsrooms and post it on their accounts without paying the certain party for it. I found it interesting that Australia has found a way around this, with newsrooms coming together to bargain back ad revenue. It has been successful for them, with an abundance of revenue returning and more newsroom employees.

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The video “How Amazon Makes You Pay More for Everything” illustrates the control Amazon has over its consumers and the tactics it uses to persuade them into spending more money. The video incorporates visuals and persuasive tones when emphasizing Amazon's strategies in raising prices to maintain its monopoly power. One thing I found very interesting in the video was the concept of third-party sellers and how Amazon persuades them to increase their prices. Specifically, Meagan Day highlighted the significance of the “buy now” box that sellers and buyers can view on the website. If a third-party seller is eligible for the “buy now" box they have a greater chance of getting the buyer's attention whilst avoiding all the chaos on Amazon's purchasing pages. However, if Amazon’s bots detect that the item listed by a third-party seller is being sold at a lower price, Amazon removes the product's availability. This in turn, persuades third-party sellers to raise their prices to match Amazon’s, since 80-90% of sellers depend on Amazon for their sales. This emphasizes the monopoly Amazon creates; it not only makes sellers raise their prices but also persuades buyers into thinking Amazon is offering the lowest price available, when in reality, Amazon is “artificially inflating prices on and off Amazon”. Meagan Day describes Amazon as a “privately run authoritarian government” in the way it manages its sellers, buyers, and competitors, emphasizing the push for the antitrust lawsuit against the company.

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The video "How Amazon Makes You Pay For Everything" explains how the online company Amazon's business model has a 'strangle hold' on our economy. A large portion of this video explains how there is a lawsuit claiming that Amazon is acting as a monopolist, meaning they are using aspects of their website such as the 'buy now' option to eliminate competition in this field of business. One aspect of this video I found extremely interesting is one of the ways Amazon is achieving this 'monopoly'. For example, Amazon requires local, or small business sellers to pay 1 out of every 2 dollars to Amazon, consequently 'taxing' them an extreme 50% in order to sell their product. This portrays Amazon as having complete control to charge sellers how ever much they see fit, which can have severe consequences in regards to the economy for every party involved. Due to the fact that Amazon is the only website of its kind, it is hard to have nothing else to compare it with in terms of thinking of the next steps to address these rising issues.

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The video "How Amazon Makes You Pay More for Everything" explains the manipulation amazon uses to persuade its customers to buy more products, ones particularly that are more expensive. The women in the video talks about how amazon inflates its prices knocking real businesses off the market and destabilizes them. The video talks thoroughly about the way amazon adjusts prices based on factors like demand and competitor prices. The more people buy products the higher the prices become for consumers. I thought it was really interesting how it explained prime memberships being a persuasion method to get customers to buy more based on the convenience of saving on shipping. It removes the barrier or second guessing of buying a product because shipping is too much. Additionally, the algorithm of amazon promotes products that are more expensive and bundles products that are " recommended with other products" to get people to buy more and spend more. It is so interesting how the amazon can post specific things that persuade consumers thinking and influence them to buy products for higher prices.

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The video "Google, Facebook, Amazon And The Future Of Antitrust Laws" discusses antitrust regulation and it's history. It begins by explaining how antitrust laws came to be and the history of major monopolies Rockefeller's oil and JP Morgans steel companies. The laws were put in place to regulate and break apart these monopolies. These laws did work for a short time back in the 19th century, but there are new challenges when trying to apply these laws to modern online companies. These large companies such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon hold significant control over data and digital platforms. If you take a step back to really think about it they control so much of our everyday lives and hold so much of our information. The Government, in my opinion, must put restrictions on the power that these companies hold. Something that stuck out to me in the video was the saying

"There is a difference between having a law on the books and having a law actually be enforced". In my opinion, the Government must enforce these laws to stop large tech companies from gaining more power then they already have. This is important not only for the economy, but also for people safety and protection of their information.

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In the video "Google, Facebook, Amazon and the Future of Antitrust Laws" highlighted key components of antitrust laws. Antitrust laws were put into place to help smaller business and firms to be able to get in the market and stay in the market. One of the examples used in the video to demonstrate hoe the U.S. used these laws was about Rockefeller's Oil company, his company became the first antitrust case as he had merged many small, state oil companies into his own company. At one point Rockefeller's Oil company own 91% of the oil production in the United States. After the case went through the Supreme Court they were able to break up the Stander Oil Company. These antitrust laws were able to either break up or regulate these big companies within the different industries. But as time went on with different wars and leaders, these laws became less and less important to the US government or were just pushed to the side. there have also been many acts added to antitrust laws throughout the year, some being more strict and others leaning back a little. most recently stated in the video "antitrust enforcement... has been essentially dormant for the last 40 years" which has lead to the FTC challenged less of the proposed mergers and how there are only five to six major companies within the major industries. I truly find it interesting how in different eras of time and leaders changed the way antitrust laws were followed. Also how strict the government use to be following these law and looking now they aren't really followed.

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The video "How Amazon makes you pay for everything" was released by More Perfect Union, a non-profit new media organization who aims to support and strengthen the working people. Through her storytelling, the use of visual elements such as graphics, and the contribution of experts, concrete examples and statistics, the author is trying to shed light about Amazon's monopolistic methods and how it weakens both consumers and smaller sellers. By raising awareness about this issue, it aims to put pressure on the lawsuit against Amazon in order to enforce antitrust laws. It was striking to realize how the video meets our daily use of Amazon, as we are often not looking further than the first results given the infinite and chaotic amounts of results. Amazon actually builds on that process to strengthen its monopoly, coerce smaller sellers to meet their conditions and eventually making everyone pay more. Amazon business practices combined with the lack of regulations allow them to wield an "authoritarian power" on the market, and that's why More Perfect Union is calling for action.

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In the video I watched: How Amazon makes you pay more for everything by Most perfect union, I found it intriguing when they talk about dynamic pricing and it reveals how Amazon uses algorithms to adjust prices based on the different factors, like demand and user behavior. This means that two customers could see different prices for the same item, which raises questions about fairness and transparency in pricing. It’s a fascinating look at how technology can influence what we pay and how we shop, highlighting the complexity behind seemingly simple transactions. In the video they use types of persuasion such as Visuals and Graphics help to illustrate complex ideas, such as price changes and market dynamics, Emotional Appeal, where the video emphasizes how consumers might unknowingly spend more, tapping into feelings of frustration and concern about fairness, which resonates with many viewers, and lastly expert insights where they are including expert opinions or data adds credibility to their arguments, making the case more compelling.

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Wall street millennial are the creators of this video. After doing some research on them I discovered that this is a podcast and YouTube account created for the purpose of educating on finances through social media platforms. Through this particular video the author uses evidence from Khan's past referencing a paper she wrote while attending Yale law school. This is using logos citing and showing direct evidence on the claim that the author makes. The author then goes on to make a claim agree with Khan that amazon is directly hurting consumers by abusing their economic power as a monopoly. Its profit margins are explained to be small using another technique of logos with a bar chart being visually displayed in which the author then goes on to further his opinion that amazon negatively is affecting consumers.

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🐙 I am watching and commenting on "Amazon is a Monopoly. So Why are its Profits So Small?" To make a meaningful response, I first need to do some internet searching to learn more about the people and the company that made this video.