"I do find it amazing that a company with such tight margins and minimal taxable profit can be so financially efficient that they can still find a few coppers to invest in space exploration ..."
It's Jeff Bezos, not Amazon behind Blue Origin. With the amount of turnover that Amazon has, the sums get pretty dang large. If you were running a small business and only bringing in 5%, you'd be starving. If you are selling billions of dollars of kit, 5% is a pretty big paycheck. Amazon is still carrying around a load of debt from all of the years they weren't making ends meet, so they aren't in the clear financially. Being cash flow positive is very helpful when it come to raising money and getting good interest rates on loans.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
