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> My favorite part of AMT is always going to be figuring out that if we only paid in $0.07 intervals, their commission algorithm would round down to the nearest whole cent when their 20% commission resulted in a fractional cent on the unit transaction level, not the monthly invoice level.

can someone ELI5 because what in the office space



20% of 0.07 was billed as 1 cent, not 1.4 nor rounded up to 2.


Imagine your favorite feature of a product was spend 1 cent on a real human being time and effort rather than 2 cents.


That's on the commission that Amazon took, not on the human.


Amazon took 20% of all workers earnings for doing essentially nothing for years and years.. of course I take great joy in giving AWS as little money as possible.


Or spend the same and let the human earn more?


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Go watch Superman III for more details...


Or Office Space


It was cheaper and looser automated billing practices than current AI “solutions”?




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