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.
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.
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.