There are about 1.3 million attorneys in the United States in 2026. Find a cross section between that and “consequences? Fuck it” and that’s your group.

There’s likely plenty of people who will happily make good trouble fighting Amazon.

Also, people know people. I myself have a friend of a friend with incredibly powerful legal weight that wants to take a swing at my employer. They are waiting for them to cross a line and then I just need to agree to let them go nuts.

That situation is NOT rare. And powerful people know this. So they paint this picture of them being indestructible. But it’s a lie.

What happens if Amazon just stops existing one day?

Literally nothing. They are buried into all e-commerce like a fucking tick. They pretty much own the cloud, even if Google and Microsoft tell you otherwise. But everything they’ve done is already done. The blueprint is out there. The rough edges sanded down. There are no questions, which means recreating such a thing is much less risky and expensive now than it used to be.

And Amazon knows this.

Some lawyers would be very happy to go up against big tech since they have so much money that it's often cheaper for them to just buy the problem away

It's not like every lawyer in the world is quaking in their boots at the mere thought of going up against Amazon.

That's not necessarily how it works. If Amazon is guilty, they'll settle for an easy win