>> ... culture shock trying to reconcile the scale of the monetary waste ... Your entire retirement fund spunked in two weeks on a project that was doomed to fail from the offset.

I can very much relate to this point. I once worked for a company which spent more each month than I could save in my entire career... And they basically did absolutely nothing with it... The same company offered me a 2% raise while saying that I was their top engineer and that me threatening to quit was akin to "holding a knife at the company's throat". I followed through on the threat, the company is still fine, still spending over $1 million per month, still achieving nothing... Meanwhile, I've been desperate to do my own startup ever since, built stuff that would put their puny systems to shame... and yet I never managed to earn above $1000 per month from my own projects.

>> Generational wealth being funnelled directly to Bezos's mega-yacht via AWS

My wife made a similar joke when she saw my recent AWS bill though it was about our contribution to Bezos' wife's massive diamond ring. My wife then said "We can't even afford to do my fillers" to which I responded "Meanwhile, she can afford so much fillers, there's barely any space left for her meat."

Then my wife laughed and said "You're funny, that's why I married you."

Just kidding, she laughed and said "You loser, when are you going to shut your mouth and start earning money?"