Incorrect.
If you put $2000 into Amazon, you own $2000 of Amazon. You own that for life. With AMZN, you own a piece of the company. With ES you own nothing.
If you buy 1 ES contract, you are now at unlimited profit and unlimited risk within a 3-9 month timeframe, and you own nothing, and have a time expiration on your back.
If you time it wrong, you will lose your entire investment of $2000, and fairly quickly these days, too! That's 40 points in ES. A frickin' blip on the PA lately, but because you will be FORCED TO SELL.
So spend $2000 to own a company you believe in, or "spend" $2000 on the ES future, which could tank so hard and so fast you could owe your brokers 10s of thousands of dollars before their margin system kicks in and calls you.
The kicker of that one would be one of those days where the entire market is tanking, but your selected stocks, like AMZN, happen to be going up. Man, what a feeling that would be.