Amazon's balance sheet demonstrates that the tech industry is dominated by poor ideas and practices that generate significant profits.

Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/cheating-at-fraud/#absentee-rentier 1/

"Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money ..." https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/cheating-at-fraud/