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Comment by hardwaresofton

[EDIT] - "profits" -> revenue. Wrote the same comment twice and only made the mistake here. Amazon consistently makes over 90B in revenues quarterly.

Fining more than revenue in Italy is one thing and may look bad on paper if you take an italy-centric view but 1B is ~1% of Amazon's quarterly revenue. Amazon is a massive company and Italy could be a loss-leader for years maybe even decades and not make a dent. All the while Italian businesses suffer and wealth compounds somewhere else.

There's also no absolute way to measure the market share/billions (and in which related markets) they've captured by the abuse they've perpetrated. Generally governments fine too little and too late, not too much and too early.

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