This is a brilliant response. I wish to expand a little on this part:
"Amazon would be nothing without the road infrastructure, schooling, telecoms and other public services that Amazon is built on."
It is a despicable tradition among a certain segment of Americans to ignore this fact. It's part of the myth of the "self-made man". There is, of course, no such thing. As you point out, nobody's success comes in a vacuum or without the overt support, financially and materially, of the society they live in.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
