While I’ve made that argument and both of those statements are ostensibly true, the reality is that a million objectors could cancel their Amazon Prime subscription without making a measurable dent in the company’s bottom line (the free shipping is actually a ‘loss leader’ for Amazon which is intended to compel subscribers to buy more stuff to make the membership ‘worth it’), and cancelling Washington Post subscriptions really just hurts the staff trying to put out (mostly) good journalism; The Post as been a cash loser for Bezos since he purchased it in 2013 and it is really just a vanity purchase and (presumably) a tax writeoff.
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