It's really not smart to count that against Amazon. Amazon doesn't run a profit because it believes it can better utilize the money to invest in its business. I

It's really not smart to count that against Amazon. Amazon doesn't run a profit because it believes it can better utilize the money to invest in its business. If that's actually true, it's way more valuable than spinning off cash. Being able to reliably convert large sums of money into substantially larger sums of money is an extremely high value talent.