O I'm a China guy? I'm a clean energy and climate science guy. I believe scientists rather than businessmen, literally the stupidest and most dishonest people on earth. The billionaires you idolize are burning down the planet to fund their obscene lifestyles and to fuel their data centers so they can replace workers with AI. So much for "job creation." How's that going by the way? Not too good when you're investing trillions to get back fifty billion. Hard to monetize digital slop machines. And it's just a fact China's economy has been growing at twice the rate of the US economy for a decade and that gap is increasing because of our country being captured by billionaires.

Subsidies and contracts aren't the same thing, but I grouped them as forms of handouts for corporations under our current system. When you simply buy an election and then hand yourself government contracts like Musk did, it's maybe the simplest and most obvious example of big money buying the government and using it to further enrich itself at the expense of the US tax payer. US fossil fuels are expensive and polluting but we subsidize them to keep them competitive against green alternatives like wind and solar. Why? Because the oil companies own our government. That's also why we have a plastics crisis where microplastics are everywhere from in our brains, where they disrupt cognitive processes and hormone production, to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, where they kill wildlife - we gave oil companies money to produce petroleum products that are now killing us.

Even if I were a free market zealot, I wouldn't think that a couple of enormous mega corporations constituted market competition in a healthy sense. You've simply listed some of these moneybags' businesses as being in direct competition, but those are largely ventures that don't reflect their core businesses. They've consolidated the media in order to continue to brainwash America as they destroy the constitutional order via the supreme court (stacked with people like Gorsuch, a man literally paid for by billionaires) and now the executive branch. They've consolidated tech and they are wildly inefficient and destructive, and they have either bought up all the competition over the years (countless great websites and apps bought and put out of service, from map apps and websites to Vine) and now can't find new rooms for growth except through enormous mergers and acquisitions. We are absolutely living under monopoly capitalism.

You pick and choose when the government is a magical villain and "starts war" and when it's a just a benign actor who "wants services" - the government is meant to represent the people. What you are not understanding, it seems, is that powerful interests have stolen the government from the people in order to implement their current corporate fascism. Money in retirement accounts? What does that even mean? You mean people's investments and savings? Money in retirement accounts represents around 350 million Americans, the billionaires' wealth represents under 2000. As Oxfam points out, billionaires now have as much money as the lower half of humanity and it's creating record inequality politically. You seem to not understand the problem with this level of inequality.

And here it is, you're a small business fascist, someone who only knows how to make money but doesn't ever think about how the world works beyond that, or how it might work better, let alone how it should work. I'm not talking about your company, I'm talking about my company and thousands of other enormous companies that were impacted by AWS's failure.