• @[email protected]
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    14 months ago

    Amazon wants the loss to avoid paying taxes. They would never admit it is doing well collecting data.

    • Emily (she/her)
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      64 months ago

      Can you explain to me exactly how moving where profit is recorded from one division to another in the same organization reduces their tax burden? Because, excuse me, I know I only did a year or two of accounting courses before dropping the degree, but that’s not how I understand taxes to work.

      Also to be turning a profit by “doing well collecting data”, the open market value of the data Alexa alone annually generates would need to be around 8% of the entire global data market. If you can justify how millions of instances of “Alexa set a timer for 10 minutes”, “Alexa what is the weather”, or “Alexa play despacito” generates that much value, maybe you have a point.

      • @[email protected]
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        14 months ago

        “Excuse me”

        You seem pretty agitated, and I don’t want to engage with you if you’re going to be impolite.

        • Emily (she/her)
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          24 months ago

          Yeah well, apologies for being a little sassy, but I’m not exactly a big fan of your tone either.

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              You used polite words, but you were condescending. I’m not interested in whether that was intentional or not, but that is the vibe you gave.

                • Emily (she/her)
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                  14 months ago

                  As I said, I don’t care if you “intended” to be condescending, I’m saying you were. Judging by your comment history you often are, so maybe get used to people responding with a bit of attitude.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    14 months ago

                    Don’t judge a book by its comment history. You should block me, so we don’t have to interact again. I will do the same. I wish you well.