I was being hyperbolic. Sorry. Amazon has made a minuscule amount of profit. Their numbers are horrible. I can't believe their shareholders put up with them.
Their most profitable year, 2010, they only made $1.15-billion of profit off of $34-billion in revenue.
In 2011 they made only $631-million off $48-billion.
Yeah. At the end of the day, it's all about the quarterly profit. If a company isn't chasing the short-term dollar, the shareholders must be suckers.