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The reason Bezos is the richest man in the world is he successfully tapped into facilitating the supply chain and has continued to fill different roles of the w
by loceng 8y ago
The reason Bezos is the richest man in the world is he successfully tapped into facilitating the supply chain and has continued to fill different roles of the whole funnel and on a massive, growing scale. His success is shining a light on the future of using autonomous systems to further reduce costs and increase profits, however that doesn't lead to any individually owned system or organization to being incentivized to allocate their services or products to take care of society's basic needs. This is where government should come in, however then you have competition against what's best for society - you have layers upon layers of for profit systems pressuring the system for their own advantage, their own specific needs to succeed and benefit the most, at the direct or indirect cost of others and society of a whole. Jeff and no one should have to shoulder these costs on their own, though he certainly is heavily benefitting from the status quo, and the exponential benefit weighted towards his scale and foundational transactional layer they support, and so it's good he's directing some resources - however whether his core values and efforts are attempting to solve the deeper problems or if he and his companies will simply pressure existing systems to benefit their own systems they excel at primarily for their own benefit, and not the benefit of the system as a whole, is what we should be questioning.