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by dingaling 150 days ago
Amazon made $17.4 billion profit in Q3 2025 alone. That is, they made so much money they couldn't find any way to spend over five BILLION per month even with this 'excess' headcount.
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>Amazon made $17.4 billion profit in Q3 2025 alone.

I think investors would prefer if they made $20 billion profit next quarter. Hence the layoffs.

Are you saying they should be a charity?

Or is this like the old Soviet Union thing where people said they pretended to pay us and we pretended to work?