We Need to Break up Amazon (Because We’re Capitalists)

Amazon is a parasite & America is the host.

At first glance, it might seem a bit radical to suggest breaking up the world’s fifth largest company. Seriously, what good reason exists to break up Amazon?

• Should we break up Amazon because it pays next to nothing in tax?
• Or, should we break up Amazon because they refuse to pay their employees living wages and crush workers unions?
• Perhaps, we should break up Amazon simply because we think Jeff Bezos is “evil”?

Amazon pays barely any tax.

While these are legitimate worries to have about the company, they don’t provide enough substance to call for a broad-scale restructuring of Amazon.

Ultimately, we need to break up Amazon — because we’re capitalists.

“Breaking up” isn’t what you think it is

As a freedom-loving Westerner — reading the words: “break up Amazon” probably caused an involuntary recoil. Most likely, your imagination flew past the principles of competition, freedom and innovation, and instead shuddered in revulsion at the…