It’s not like Jeff Bezos had private dinners with Jeffrey Epstein or invited Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to his private, invitation only, weekend retreat at a private resort he rented out.

Oh wait, he did exactly that and probably a bunch more.

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    10 days ago

    I love how it says he’s the founder of AWS. Amazon (the online store) is basically a side business for him, AWS is the real cash cow.

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      10 days ago

      AWS is the real cash cow

      Significantly higher margins and bigger government contracts, particularly with state security services. So no surprise there.

      But Amazon, as a retail business venture, generates significant profits on its own. What’s more, it is gradually supplanting the USPS, which puts the business at the logistical center of a critical piece of US infrastructure. A classic “Too Big To Fail” setup that also guarantees Amazon a customer base indefinitely and lets them freeze out competitors as the USPS decays.

      AWS is a bigger funnel of money, but Amazon retail and wholesale is an enormous economic footprint with lots of downstream political consequences.