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Bezos return of investment for sucking up to Trump (media.piefed.social)

submitted 2 days ago by adhd_traco@piefed.social to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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[–] Ok_effect@piefed.europe.pub 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Amazon is big because of consumers*, has revenue because of consumers. There are a lot of consumers, yes. That is part of the point.

*people

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Amazon is big because they have businesses that rely upon them for infrastructure. Retailers pay Amazon to sell their stuff. Enterprise clients pay Amazon to host their servers in the cloud. Governments pay Amazon to provide internet and host data. Amazon could lose every single global retail purchase on their website for a month and the effect on their net profits would be less than the amount rounded off of their balance sheets.

The human mind cannot comprehend the amount of money the oligarchy controls, and the insignificance of the individual consumer. We are ants to people like Bezos. Annoying, maybe, but a nuisance to be dealt with. You don't ask the ants what they want. You ignore them until they get into your house, and then you eradicate them and set barriers to prevent them coming back.

There are a lot of us, and we could be annoying to Jeff Bezos. But he is beyond economic retribution.