The Amazon tax: 50 cents of every online-service dollar
The Problem w/Blockchains on Big Cloud (Akash Network)
“Turns out 50 [cents] of every dollar you and I spend on online services — like Asana, like Netflix, like Notion or whatever — goes to Amazon or Google. Fifty percent… it’s an invisible tax that we all have, and guess who pays the bill — we end up paying, because the cost and savings come down to the user.” — 00:04:19
Context: Citing the a16z “cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox” article as evidence that cloud economics are getting worse and expensive decentralization is prohibitive.