HurlingDurling@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoFTC, 17 states sue Amazon alleging it inflates online prices and overcharges sellersny1.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up1153arrow-down12
arrow-up1151arrow-down1external-linkFTC, 17 states sue Amazon alleging it inflates online prices and overcharges sellersny1.comHurlingDurling@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squareJaysyn@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down1·9 months agoAnd here comes a SCotUS decision declaring monopolies & price gouging are now legal.
minus-squarenxdefiant@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up16·9 months agoSlight correction: Price gouging, as a concept, is now considered a person.
minus-squaregirlfreddy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agoAs a Canadian the concept of a business having personhood rights is just fucking foreign to me. Humans survived millennia without businesses … there isn’t a business on earth that would survive without humans. That tells us everything about which entity is most important.
And here comes a SCotUS decision declaring monopolies & price gouging are now legal.
Slight correction: Price gouging, as a concept, is now considered a person.
As a Canadian the concept of a business having personhood rights is just fucking foreign to me.
Humans survived millennia without businesses … there isn’t a business on earth that would survive without humans.
That tells us everything about which entity is most important.