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They aren't comparable metrics. Revenue doesn't represent value added. I can sell a $20 bill for $20, my revenue is $20 but there is no impact on GDP (nothing has been created, no value has been added). Do that enough times and you too can have revenue equaling that of a small country.

Remember that while these types of dystopias are bad for most people, for some they are utopias. Amazon being an all powerful unaccountable infinite money machine is Jeff Bezo's utopia, for example.

Isn't it weird that Amazon is economically efficient because of central planning, but nations aren't?

Not really. Amazon is trying to be efficient, nations are not.

Incentives

fiction?