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You accept that you live in the most late stage capitalist country of all time that's very pro monopoly.
And then you move I guess. No one believes USA will ever change for the better.
Move to Czechia! Amazon's presence is negligible here, we have our own local alternatives (Alza.cz being the biggest one, but we also have a plethora of e-commerce sites in general).
Germany also has plenty other websites like Otto and Kaufland. And they all your favourite random letter brands you can find in amazon.
In Switzerland we don't even have Amazon. We can order from one of the neighbourhing countries' Amazon, but they don't always ship here. There are a lot of alternatives though.
Really it’s the internet that enables these monopolies. It nullifies space for information. Like a little pizza place can only have so much reach. But if the product is teleported, then that little pizza operation can just keep growing and growing smoothly and taking more of the market. And it can happen really fast.