If you had $2T in cash, and you were to buy all of Amazon's outstanding shares, taking it private, to own it forever, earning your money back from the company's profits year after year, after subtracting all amounts reinvested in the business -- in the same manner you would do it with, say, an apartment building, would you ever recover your $2T investment? What kind of annual return do you think you would you earn over the remaining life of the business?
If you had $2T in cash, and you were to buy all of Amazon's outstanding shares, taking it private, to own it forever, earning your money back from the company's profits year after year, after subtracting all amounts reinvested in the business -- in the same manner you would do it with, say, an apartment building, would you ever recover your $2T investment? What kind of annual return do you think you would you earn over the remaining life of the business?