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There was an interesting graph a few years back about amazon and all the warehouses they are building.

They had grown from ~100,000 employees in 2013 to 1.5 million in 2021. The growth rate would suggest they'd employ everyone in north america in only a few years.

While possible in theory, the government could never allow it. If a corporation were able to grow to that size, they essentially become the government. Bezos could simply tell his people to not send the taxes to the government and the government instantly collapses within months.

So unsurprisingly government went in and started restricting amazon. They can basically never grow again, they can't ever threaten the government's existence. Amazon to a large degree is now a US government ngo. Bezos is obviously no longer ceo and amazon laid off a group. And what has amazon done for the last 2 years, not much of anything.

> the government could never allow it. If a corporation were able to grow to that size, they essentially become the government

the US government is already overwhelmingly something that is structured by and for the benefit of corporations

>the US government is already overwhelmingly something that is structured by and for the benefit of corporations

This is an interesting subject.

The majority of tax revenue for the federal government comes from income taxes.

Only about 10% comes from corporations. But it's easier to deal with corporations and there is no income tax without corporations. So it makes sense to mostly work with corporations.

What's also quite interesting, in the last 50 years, there's no functional change to taxation in the USA. Politicians are afraid to make any major changes in fears of screwing it all up.

But worse,during the financial crisis, the USA basically went bankrupt. There is no such thing as bankrupt though.

The USA needs to find about 7 trillion $ in the next couple years. That's a pretty big, that's another great depression.

Politicians are barely paid by income taxes. They're mostly paid by lobbying and special interest groups, i.e. corporations

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