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		rhizome on Aug 6, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jeff Bezos Is Playing Chess Since Amazon is such a low margin business Even as a public company, I wouldn't be surprised if they're playing some accounting tricks in order to maintain this as a facade.

foobarqux on Aug 7, 2013 [–]

The argument doesn't really depend on the business being low margin only that Amazon is strongly motivate to control labor costs for whatever reason.

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