# The invisible Amazon tax on modern society

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-01-13
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Most UNDERRATED Cosmos GEM? Akash Network Deep Dive with Greg Osuri! (Cryptocito)
- **Watch at:** 00:17:14 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdQFOS-uG_A&t=1034s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2023-01-13-the-invisible-amazon-tax-on-modern-society-7xrq/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The invisible Amazon tax on modern society," Most UNDERRATED Cosmos GEM? Akash Network Deep Dive with Greg Osuri! (Cryptocito), 13 Jan 2023, 00:17:14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdQFOS-uG_A&t=1034s

## Quote — verbatim

> Half of every dollar we pay to online services like Netflix and Asana goes to a cloud provider, either Amazon, Google or Microsoft. 80% of that market is controlled by four companies... we pay an invisible Amazon tax. When Amazon goes down, half the internet goes down — that's how powerful it is.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

He continues: "these companies are not elected, they're not regulated, they're not governed by the people, they're completely controlled by their figureheads" — the civic argument for an open cloud.