671·10 months ago- This is advertising. It’s not the most worst example, but it’s still fundamentally an ad.
- Revenue is absolutely the wrong metric to use. If you had $100 of revenue and $99 in costs, you have only $1 left to pay your fines. Amazon did not earn enough to pay its fines in 1 hour and 50 minutes because most of that that money was used to buy and deliver the products, plus various other expenses. The blog post is misstating the numbers by over an order of magnitude for some of the companies. If you’re going to do it, do it right at least. The profit numbers are just as easy to come by as revenue.