Ethics Does Not Apply in the Digital Marketplace

I learned this, somewhat to my surprise, by buying on Amazon.

Amazon's first policy, was to dominate the online retail market, by selling the most of everything - even it that meant a loss of profits, at first. This was backed up by the most innovative Internet Site ever built - and equally innovative Server Software, behind it.

Online software is composed of two parts - what the User sees, and interacts with - and the Business Logic, safely out of sight, somewhere in the Cloud, that does everything else. And I mean everything else.

Amazon has the best of both. Because it works closely with Google. These are separate companies, but they work together extremely well. In a way never seen before.

The EU has freaked out over this, and claims this amounts to a monopoly. And is slapping big fines on everyone. They don't understand what is going on.

What they should be interested in - is Ethics. Something that goes on under their Radar Screen. And they would probably be challenged to spell it.

Everything that goes on in the Computer Economy - the World's largest Economy -  is not Ethical.

They will say they are, and say they are, until they are blue in the face.

But they lie.