Technology

Internet Companies Today – are they too big?

<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">As one of the single biggest technical innovations we’ve ever made as a species&comma; the internet changed everything&period; It transformed and utterly uplifted how we live and progress as people&comma; and completely altered the world of commerce&period; In a few short decades&comma; we’ve gone from struggling to sell locally to being able to build businesses that can sell to the world over&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">This&comma; though&comma; has created one interesting problem&colon; huge internet companies&period; Companies based online with no real offline face&period; Businesses which brand out across continent to continent&comma; strangling competition and dominating markets they previously could never have touched&period; So&comma; whilst the internet allows everyone to run a business from their bedroom&comma; are some of the major players of the online sphere just a little too big&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">Let’s take a look at some of the implications of the modern internet giants present today&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"western" align&equals;"JUSTIFY">Controlling the market<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">One of the biggest problems that these businesses produce is near dominance of their chosen market&period; If you want to run an offline store&comma; you need to beat local competition&period; Perhaps you need to beat a big company name who is based in a nearby&comma; larger city&period; However&comma; if you want to succeed online&comma; you need to beat all the independent competition and then outsmart your traditional market leader&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">Easier said than done you would say&comma; right&quest; It’s part of the challenge in being an online business&period; Today&comma; companies like Amazon hold immense dominance over their challengers&period; Bringing in millions of dollars of revenue in a single day&comma; companies like Amazon simply hold dominion over the entire market&period; There is an interesting infographic titled &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;euro-million&period;org&sol;internet-realtime&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">internet in realtime<&sol;a>” which shows just how big and controlling some of these companies are&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">If they want to sell a product that you sell&comma; it’s easy to do so&period; Add in their massive market scale and their marketing budget&comma; and it’s easier for them to be seen first and sell at a lower price&period; They can afford to – can you&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">This means that the option is either be beaten or join the big company&period; Instead of trying to run their own independent store&comma; many people end up selling their wares through Amazon instead and earning less than they could if they were to go it alone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">It’s the same for most online markets&period; Online markets today tend to have someone commanding it&period; Want to start a search engine&quest; Good luck&period; Once you somehow beat the likes of Duck Duck Go&comma; you need to beat the top boy – Google&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">They are simply too big&comma; too expansive and too powerful&period; The market isn’t a monopoly&semi; it’s just that everyone else has to make do with the crumbs&period; When companies like Amazon are worth &dollar;1tn&comma; how can you possibly hope to knock them off their perch&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"western" align&equals;"JUSTIFY">The reputation to succeed<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">We also have an issue where companies like this are simply bulletproof&period; All manner of bad news stories can come out about employment quality&comma; how people are treated on-site and various other negative factors&period; We can find out that companies of such immense scale pay a fraction of the tax that they should&comma; using their power and influence to just take a nice step over the regulations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">The problem is that&comma; since companies of this size are so integral to our day-to-day consumer activities&comma; we look the other way&period; You might be annoyed that Amazon&comma; for example&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;uk&period;businessinsider&period;com&sol;amazon-not-paying-taxes-trump-bezos-2018-4" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">being fast and loose with taxation<&sol;a>&period; However&comma; they do it in a way that is ingenious&colon; they find easy ways to circumvent regulation&comma; and nobody cares&period; Or&comma; at least&comma; they don’t care enough to stop using the service&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">Sure&comma; you’re annoyed and you wish they would pay more tax&period; But is anyone else doing that awesome coffee you love at free delivery and at 38&percnt; off&quest; No&period; They aren’t&period; This creates expendable morals&comma; where we are happy to essentially whistle and look the other way&period; We keep using services that&comma; if we carried out the same business practices&comma; would see us in serious legal trouble&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">It’s just part of the fact we allow the internet to have so much power&period; We give these companies insane levels of reputation and luxury&colon; it should come as no surprise that they use that to their advantage&period; And is it even possible to be too annoyed&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">We’ve created a system where business does all that it can to avoid playing by the rules&period; Companies big and small do what is legal to keep their tax bills as small as possible&period; If we’re all at it&comma; playing these games&comma; can we <i>really<&sol;i> complain&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"western" align&equals;"JUSTIFY">What can be done&quest;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">Sadly&comma; it’s a bit late for that&period; If we&comma; as a society&comma; wanted to avoid companies like Amazon and Google becoming market leaders&comma; we shouldn’t have used them almost exclusively&period; In their early days&comma; both companies had plenty of competition&period; The problem is that we put all of our attention into using these options&colon; they now hold so much wealth&comma; opportunity and reputation that it’s very hard to stop them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">Basically&comma; how can you stop a business that already has so much sway&quest; Building a competitor for them is almost impossible&period; Trying to start up a new business and proclaim it the &OpenCurlyQuote;new Amazon’ or &OpenCurlyQuote;new eBay’ is like calling a sports star the new Mike Tyson&comma; Michael Jordan or Lionel Messi&colon; it’s very much unlikely&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">So&comma; if you want to do something about these internet companies holding so much sway&comma; the answer is simple&colon; stop using them&period; If you are not too bothered about the size and rapid growth of online companies&comma; or you believe it is a good thing&comma; then keep on using them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">One thing is for sure&colon; we have never in the history of humanity had such potential for companies to hold the power they do text&period; For that reason&comma; it’s going to be extremely important that we appreciate the fact that this is unprecedented&period; Corporate lobbying has been a centuries-long problem for humanity and politics&colon; is it really going to change anytime soon&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"JUSTIFY">Don’t blame the internet for creating these giants&colon; it’s down to their consumers and users&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

Hardik Patel

Hardik Patel is a Digital Marketing Consultant and professional Blogger. He has 16+ years experience in SEO, SMO, SEM, Online reputation management, Affiliated Marketing and Content Marketing.

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