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Comment by sys32768 | Hacker News Reader

Amazon burned $250M just for the rights to produce the goofy and embarrassing "Rings of Power" series. I wonder who was bribed in that deal?

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There is a universe where Amazon can be both incompetent and corrupt, and we're living in it.

Some might argue the two traits go hand in hand

???

I think they implied the following argument, or something along the lines

  1. Assume that Amazon knows the future
  2. Then spending $250M on Rings of Power is a bad decision
  3. Therefore paying $28M to Trump is also just a bad decision, and not a bribery

I personally don't think that 1 holds, or that 2 implies 3.

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