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Amazon.com, Inc. | |
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| Founded |
Cadabra, Inc. July 5, 1994 Bellevue, Washington, United States |
| Founder | Jeff Bezos |
| Industry | E-commerce, digital distribution, supermarket |
| Headquarters | 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, Washington, 98109 |
| Key people | Jeff Bezos (CEO) |
| Ownership |
Jeff Bezos (14.0%) The Vanguard Group, Inc. (6.4%) BlackRock, Inc. (5.5%)[1] |
| Number of employees | 1,608,000[2] |
| Revenue | US$469.822 billion (2021)[2] |
| Net income | US$33.364 billion (2021)[2] |
| Total assets | US$420.549 billion (2021)[2] |
Amazon.com, Inc. is a U.S. American imperialist digital retail company. Led by the billionaire Jeff Bezos, it holds a hegemonic hold over the transportation of goods in the United States of America, and is one of the largest perpetrators of worker exploitation in the Western world.[3] Amazon is worth over a trillion US dollars.[4]
Amazon commonly engages in "lobbying" (bribery) with the already plutocratic U.S. government. Amazon's main efforts with their "lobbying" commonly include retarding labor rights, having their puppets in the U.S. government pass laws which better permit their tax-evasion, and overall cementing their place as a monopoly, at the expense of their laborers.[5][6][7]
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References
- ↑ https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000110465921050333/tm2035374-1_def14a.htm#tBOOS
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000101872422000005/amzn-20211231.htm
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/feb/26/tradeunions.workandcareers%7Cretrieved
- ↑ https://www.mintpressnews.com/jeff-bezos-wants-donations-help-amazon-employees-coronavirus/265962/
- ↑ https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2021&id=D000023883
- ↑ https://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/amazon-dc-influence-109776
- ↑ https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/amazon-privacy-lobbying/%7Cretrieved=2022-6-11