On your point where you said "Supposedly Amazon has operated things like AWS at a loss for long periods of time" I agree AWS hasn't been losing money for a long

On your point where you said "Supposedly Amazon has operated things like AWS at a loss for long periods of time" I agree AWS hasn't been losing money for a long time. https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-earnings-aws-amazon-web-services-10-billion-quarterly-revenue-2020-4 https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-earnings-aws-amazon-w... https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2020/01/06/how-much-of-amazons-73-billion-aws-profit-will-rivals-win/#4206fb735bcd https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2020/01/06/how-much-... edit:Formatting