Report reveals details about Amazon's secret algorithm redacted in FTC complaint.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6320210

Report: Amazon made $1B with secret algorithm for spiking prices Internet-wide::Report reveals details about Amazon’s secret algorithm redacted in FTC complaint.

  • scala
    12·
    1 year ago

    Amazing. And we keep letting these massive companies monopolize further. 😑

        • Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          52·
          1 year ago

          The system is working exactly as its core mechanisms demand and in line with what good (corporate) behavior requires. It does so openly.

          • foksmash@lemm.ee
            1·
            1 year ago

            The current implementation has its flaws but that’s due to unchecked concentration of power, as you stated earlier. The core mechanism of exchange of goods among individuals is just fine.

            • Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
              12·
              1 year ago

              The concentration of power is the monopolization tendency inherent to capitalism. That’s how it works. It forces those in control of business to attempt any means of increasing the mass of profit and not get destroyed by competition. Monopolization does both of those things and business owners realize this quickly.

              Capitalism is not the exchange of goods among individuals. That has existed for a very long time and includes feudal and slave and communal and really all systems we are familiar with where people interact with one another.

              Capitalism is an economic system dominated by private businesses that employ wage workers to produce commodities for exchange. This differs from the systems it displaced, which were usually feudal, mercantile, that sort of thing.