Whilst I'm not sure it's healthy to have one company so dominant, and whilst Amazon's product range is not perfect:
1. In terms of logistics it seems to me they handed every other logistic company's arse to them - even those that have been running for hundreds of years and thus which you might hope to have some expertise in the field, and conversely even the newer companies which you might hope are relatively unburdened by inertia etc. Prime is awesome.
2. At the risk of sounding heartless, I don't care about all the struggling small competitors. Times and industries change, and Amazon's approach is simply more efficient. Does it really benefit society to have x thousands of people running their own e-commerce business rather than finding something else to do? Should we be putting restrictions on weaving machines in order to support manual weavers? Or supporting buggy whip manufacturers by taxing car makers? Where do we draw the line?
3. I don't care about the tax avoidance etc. I'd rather see Bezos spend the money on rocketry than have governments wasting yet more on handouts. The former will probably benefit humanity more in the end.
4. Price. If Amazon weren't almost always equal or very slightly above competitors I wouldn't use it. But it is. Why should I pay more? To support ye olde historical e-commerce shoppe?
In the UK we had (pre-CV) virtual full employment, and a reasonable minimum wage. The average person had plenty of other options, and nobody was forcing anyone to work at Amazon.
To point 1: From my experience here in the UK, most deliveries arrive without issue. Amazon are fine here, but so are most other retailers.
To point 2: Monopolies are Bad Thing.
To point 3: You really don't believe that billionaires should pay their share, the way the rest of us do? Also, given the lockdown, there's no option but for the government to offer handouts. A huge proportion of the country is unable to work, through no fault of their own.
To point 4: You're right that economies of scale have allowed Amazon to undercut everyone else on price. WalMart did the same. I don't blame you for buying from Amazon, but the problems with their monopoly shouldn't be downplayed.
1. In terms of logistics it seems to me they handed every other logistic company's arse to them - even those that have been running for hundreds of years and thus which you might hope to have some expertise in the field, and conversely even the newer companies which you might hope are relatively unburdened by inertia etc. Prime is awesome.
2. At the risk of sounding heartless, I don't care about all the struggling small competitors. Times and industries change, and Amazon's approach is simply more efficient. Does it really benefit society to have x thousands of people running their own e-commerce business rather than finding something else to do? Should we be putting restrictions on weaving machines in order to support manual weavers? Or supporting buggy whip manufacturers by taxing car makers? Where do we draw the line?
3. I don't care about the tax avoidance etc. I'd rather see Bezos spend the money on rocketry than have governments wasting yet more on handouts. The former will probably benefit humanity more in the end.
4. Price. If Amazon weren't almost always equal or very slightly above competitors I wouldn't use it. But it is. Why should I pay more? To support ye olde historical e-commerce shoppe?