[boudin]

Can you prove that all the other businesses that didn't survive, either online or shops weren't has much jobs than the one Amazon provide?

Also, all the taxes that they don't pay needs to be paid by others. For each optimizations done by those companies, it's as much money that needs to be paid by others as each country runs on a budget that is mainly based on taxes. Them not paying taxes as a direct impact on taxes that needs to be paid by the one who pay taxes as well as the quality of service and infrastructure of a country. Infrastructure they uses a lot by the way, like roads to deliver their goods for example.

[formercoder]

It’s hard to compare to other businesses because amazon cannot capitalize R&D. If they spend $1bn on software dev and Tesla spends the same amount on a factory, Amazon’s ebitda is down $1bn and Tesla’s is only down ~$100M.

[fjsolwmv]

https://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2016/may/deductibility-...

Says software is capitalized over 3-5yrs. The difference is that software dev costs usually grow smoothly year over year but gigafactory launches are spiky