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i hated it at first, but then started to appreciate how it gives visibility on the cost of senator salaries and the military.
US Senators make $193,400 per year and there are 100 of them. This ~20mil doesn't exactly stack up to the ~1.8 trillion of US government discretionary spending (or ~4 trillion of 'mandatory' spending).
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i hated it at first, but then started to appreciate how it gives visibility on the cost of senator salaries and the military.
It doesn't really as our minds can't truly comprehend the population or volume of goods sold. Without that it's meaningless.
There is no regulation or legislation that is telling Amazon they can/can't or should/shouldn't post this information. Amazon appears to be responding to the wishes of the President out of fealty or fear. The threat of a negative response by the President is enough to change the behavior of the company.
To me, this calls into question to what degree Amazon will willfully comply with government requests that come in via phone call and not a warrant. From the Amazon shopping side, you can build quite a profile on someone based on their past order history. Want to find protesters? There’s been a number of folks who don’t usually order office supplies suddenly ordering the thick Sharpie markers in a certain area... Hope…
That’s small potatoes. Think of all the corporate and government data stored in 365 and other cloud services.