Amazon's 2018 profits: $11.2 billion; Amazon's 2018 IRS bill: negative $129 million

[Wanderfound]

It's the criminal economy, stupid!

The difference between organised crime and the corporate business world is that organised criminals bribe petty officials in order to break the law, while corporate criminals bribe legislative officials in order to make the law. Same game, the corps are just better at it. It’s all about extracting wealth from the peasantry.