# The Amazon tax: 50 cents of every online-service dollar

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-11-11
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** The Problem w/Blockchains on Big Cloud (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:04:19 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YasgYOQtxR0&t=259s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-11-11-the-amazon-tax-50-cents-of-every-online-service-do-7bph/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The Amazon tax: 50 cents of every online-service dollar," The Problem w/Blockchains on Big Cloud (Akash Network), 11 Nov 2022, 00:04:19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YasgYOQtxR0&t=259s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Citing the a16z "cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox" article as evidence that cloud economics are getting worse and expensive decentralization is prohibitive.