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Amazon doesn’t make anything anyone wants to buy?

Not to be snarky, but if AWS counts as “nothing” I’d sure like a slice of nothing please.

AWS is a (collection of) service(s) which can scale and have low marginal cost of reproduction. Fire Tablets are a real thing you can buy, but they are shit so nobody does.

Sorry, are you suggesting AWS Services "aren't real things"?

If I pay for a database server in Virginia, how is that not real?

I get that you meant “physical” but this blur between “advertising isn’t a useful thing for an economy to focus on” and “services are not real” is a bit of a jump!

Cloud services don’t just exist on their own accord. Datacenters are physical and real!

fortunately, it's not for a one person to decide what an economy needs or not. The demand is there and that's why we have "ad companies".

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