It's basically a "Pig Butchering" scam. Get people to give you a little time and attention, and then reward them with whatever they're looking for. Then after

It's basically a "Pig Butchering" scam. Get people to give you a little time and attention, and then reward them with whatever they're looking for. Then after you've gotten as much trust as you're going to get (fattened the pig), change the game to extract as much value as you can from them (butcher the pig), regardless of any long-term bridge-burning. From the oligarchs' point of view, none of these users or services are going to be valuable anymore once AI automates the bulk of the economy (AI companies are strongly expecting this in the 2030s), so now's the right time to start "butchering" some pigs. In this case, shameless support for Trump in exchange for political sway for Bezos, regardless of the ramifications for the brand or customers. In game theory terms, this the tail-end of a game of iterated prisoner's dilemma, where people start betraying each other after years of cooperation. And if AI progress accelerates, so will this.