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Re:Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala H... by dragonwriter on Friday October 25, 2024 @11:53PM (#41952398)
> They make $600B+ a year.

Are you confusing revenue with profit? Yeah, a lot of money pumps in one end of Amazon retail and out the other, but there is very little margin: the $550+ billion in revenue on the retail side, as I understand, brings in significantly less net than the $90 billion in revenue on the cloud side.

And government contracts, where one might expect support or opposition from a potential cheif executige who has made overt promises of purges and other uses of office to punish enemies and reward friends to make a big difference, are an important part of that (not just that one $1B contract.)

Re:Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala H... by chgs on Saturday October 26, 2024 @06:31AM (#41953903)
I say I make $100k year. That’s my salary, it’s my revenue. To do that I have to do things like paying taxes, rent, electric costs etc.
Re:Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala H... by dmix on Saturday October 26, 2024 @03:21PM (#41957045)
The $1B/yr is revenue too

...probably at a way lower profit range than most corporate contracts given how demanding gov deals are.

Re:Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala H... by worik on Sunday October 27, 2024 @02:35PM (#41964599)
> a lot of money pumps in one end of Amazon retail and out the other, but there is very little margin

Citation needed

I thought they had fabulous margins

Am I wrong