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Cake day: November 14th, 2023

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  • with absolutely no return on investment for them.

    They show ads unless you pay for the super plus version of Prime. So by streaming they get ad revenue from the companies advertising even if you don’t watch the ads. The companies pay for the ads by increasing the price of what they sell- and they don’t sell only on Amazon but everywhere.

    So when you buy a bag of chips at the local store, some of that money is going to Amazon because you had their streaming on.














  • I don’t know whether Gabe did this dishonestly,

    Gabe made his billions by violating the First Sale Doctrine which was ruled by the Supreme Court and passed into law over a hundred years ago.

    He was one of the original tech bros: Let’s do something illegal and add “on a computer” to the process to claim the law doesn’t apply.

    I use Steam, but I’m well aware that I used to be able to buy old video games at a huge discount before Steam sidestepped the law with “it’s not a game it’s a steam key”.