[pwarner]

I mostly don't blame Amazon. If the mob boss demands $10M in protection money in order to allow your $2.5T business to operate, you pay, especially if that mob boss happens to be the head of federal law enforcement.

Maybe we shift a bit of focus towards Congress, supreme courts and frankly voters who are apparently OK with this.

[lateforwork]

Speaking of the Supreme Court, Justice Robert’s wife earned $10 million as a “consultant.” The compensation made her one of the highest-paid legal recruiters. That's another "Melania movie".

https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/wife-of-chief-justic...

[jmye]

I agree that we should be blaming the voters who decided that naked bribery and corruption is an American value (moreso than, say, their bleating about gun rights), but…

The people most capable of fighting back, and who ultimately have the most to lose in a kleptocratic, authoritarian state, apparently to be cowards and losers. Bezos and Jassy could tell the administration to pound sand, given how critical AWS is, and that Amazon is part of the like, 4 companies propping up the teetering stack of cards holding up the thing this administration (and its weaponized voters) think represents “the economy”. But they won’t, because they’re a bunch of feckless children, desperate for scraps.

[pwarner]

I think they'd just move the business to Oracle?

[fireflash38]

Nah. You really think they are powerless?

[drcongo]

Most of HN seems to be more than OK with it judging by the flagging and your downvotes.

[insane_dreamer]

yeah, it's honestly been surprising to me to discover that; I expected higher cognitive reasoning