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Why does congress always need the CEO? Surely there must be someone at amazon more qualified to talk about Rekognition than Bezos.
by ericpauley 8y ago
Why does congress always need the CEO? Surely there must be someone at amazon more qualified to talk about Rekognition than Bezos.
- krapp 8y agoCongress grilling a CEO makes it appear to their constituents that they're fighting on their behalf against a corrupt and otherwise unchecked corporate establishment - CEOs are easy targets and celebrities in their own right; just having "Jeff Bezos" in the headline draws readers, and attention to the lawmakers themselves. Congress grilling some random engineer, meanwhile, would make them look like abusive bureaucrats, if anyone cared, which no one would. These hearings are rarely if ever about fact-finding as opposed to politics and optics, and being seen "taking action" on "relevant" issues.