Yep. Trillion dollar companies are so huge that a deep recession only mildly impacts revenue.

He wants to buy everything remotely competition at scrap-bottom prices

Or at least six months' worth of rice, beans, sugar, spices, bottled water and other barterable items. Maybe candles and those butane cans for portable gas cooktops.

I just want to add to this that YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BOYCOTT SOMETHING COMPLETELY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

It's absolutely OK if you cannot 100% cut Amazon out of your life. It's OK if you have to buy from them sometimes because it's the only place you can find that particular thing you need.

You just need to stop making them your default. Check somewhere else first. Make that little bit of extra effort to see if maybe a local store has what you're looking for.

If you reduce your spending on Amazon by 80%, that's still a huge reduction. If enough people do that, they'll be in serious trouble. And it's a lot more manageable than an all or nothing boycott.

And if we could convince a hundred million people to reduce their spending Amazon by just 10%, that would have far more impact than a hundred thousand people cutting them out entirely. It's better to set a lower standard that more people can engage with, especially because the more people develop that habit of not always going to Amazon first, the more it's place in their lives will continue to shrink.

I call this "soft boycotting". Reduce rather than remove. It's far more sustainable as an option in your every day life, and it encourages people to actually engage with boycotting instead of writing it off because it feels like an impossible commitment.

I so badly want to watch the new critical role animated series and conveniently buy and ship Christmas gifts this time of year. God damn it Bezos. All you had to do was not be fucking evil.

Unfortunately, it won't make much of a dent at all. Amazon's traditional goods business runs on very thin margins, and they can write it off. Their profit center these days is AWS, and there isn't much you or I can do to boycott that.

That said, I have canceled Prime, and I only use Amazon for some hobbyist stuff that's hard to get from literally anywhere else.

Crashes are good for people that have capital because it lets them buy things that people are forced to sell at a discounted price.

Facts. You don't even have to be particularly rich to do it. I had a few thousand I'd saved over a decade in March 2020, used it to buy oil stocks at a 90% discount, then sold it two years later when things rebounded. It wasn't 'fuck you' money, but it allowed me to pay off my student loans.

my personal plan is to gather as much capital as i can while this everything bubble goes wild (fuck it, look at total volume levels now vs...anytime last 30 years...nobody but degenerate gamblers and those that should know better are playing right now), then...go on a mass-building spree to drive down the price of housing.

high density, high-quality, affordable housing built for sale not rent, sold exclusively to long-time local residents and/or first-time home buyers. my hope is this crashes individual localized housing markets, as the local rent parasites cant find renters and since they probably took loans out on their properties to throw into the casino...

then i swoop in, buy their distressed property on the cheap, throw down even more high-density/quality, affordable housing for sale.

repeat until everyone has a home

Yeah, the OP's comment is weird: it's because what these types call "AI" not actually working properly in most environments (mainly because it makes critical, even deadly, mistakes with far, far higher frequency than even untrained humans) so adopters of the Technology are already suffering losses due to it and having to rollback their deployments of the "AI", that the bubble will blow causing an US economy collapse because of how much Market valuation is tied up to the AI bubble and the massive misallocation of resources and investments linked to it (a local economic collapse which might or not spread to become "world economy collapse").

An economic crash caused by the latest insanelly overhyped Tech grift turning out to not work at all at lowering costs for the adopters of that technology (quite the contrary) isn't an opportunity to sell more of that very insanelly overhyped technology.

I would expect that, like last time around, the way the capital rich will benefit from an economic collapse is because they'll be able to buy Assets on the cheap, whose values will then be propped up by Governments just like last time around (part of the reason why both realestate and stock markets quickly got back to beating records after the last world economic collapse)

Yep. It's a fire sale for the 1%

"Survival of the fittest! Let nature take it's course!" ::nervously re-checks automatic locks::

i dont think we truly recovered from the 08 crash to begin with, we just truncated it to something else. terms of job-wise yea it gotten harder since that time.

Well said. However, at this point I think they've already built the prison, and we're already living in it.

Are you talking about the AI / big tech companies? No they won’t.

That's what the AI guard dogs are for.

Plus also preditive AI and eye tracking to check for those thinking of turning on him.

He’s going to have real trouble proofing his air vents against cement as well.

And slow down the explosive growth of those numbers of his? Not on all of our lives

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the biggest provider of compute resources and servers in the world. They have huge data centres full of servers and Nvidia GPUs that they rent out to AI companies. Almost every fortune 500 spends 7-8 figures $$$ on aws services a year and a lot of smaller companies spend 6-7 figures too.

Amazon invested billions in anthropic who incidentally use their GPUs and sell access to their models via AWS too.

They certainly have skin in the game when it comes to LLMs/GenAI.

bezos is at odds with ketamine musk, he wants to be the only space company.

We're subsidizing the building and operation of the data centers to take our jobs too.