Tom Ellsworth

And if it's not, you have to look at trimming or doing something else.

It's just a fact.

And the insidious angle that says, well, maybe turn it into a trust or something.

Bezos is under no obligation to run a nonprofit to build a newsroom simply because you want another liberal voice in America.

They say like, oh, well, why does this medicine cost this much?

These companies are incentivized to create these things for us because they can then make money off of it.

If there is no profitability there, creation dies.

means that your entire infrastructure is not functional.

So exactly what Tom said.

I mean, it's the capitalist free market.

Yeah, you have the money.

Why don't you do it if you have the money?

Why do you need to do this?

Why do you need to sell merch?

Why do you need to do all this stuff to keep making the money?

It's how this thing works.

The incentive for people to continue building something, not the other way around.

Adam, your thoughts?

I've got a different take on this.

Not necessarily a WAPO take, but more of a societal, cultural take.