"The point of Amazon's payola scheme is only and ever a way to parasitically extract the maximum amount a platform seller is willing to part with, and by running a fake SBSPA, Amazon was able to trick its customers into revealing those maximum prices." - @pluralistic

Just so we're clear, though, the only reason any of this works is that AMA is a functional monopoly. This is why those are supposed to be regulated & corruption is the reason they aren't.

#capitalism #enshittification #business