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Here's a counter-idea for this game: You wake in in 1993 with no memories except perfect insider knowledge of how Amazon was built down to the finest details.
by negativez 8y ago
Here's a counter-idea for this game:
You wake in in 1993 with no memories except perfect insider knowledge of how Amazon was built down to the finest details. You have a full year of lead time to drink Jeff Bezos' milkshake.
Do you:
1) Spoil all the resources he used so that an unknown entity becomes the main online merchant instead, with the typical "morals" you'd expect a big company to have?
2) Build Amazon yourself plus "morals" accepting the real possibility that those changes to the formula cede your competitive advantage to a less "moral" unknown entity?
3) Build Amazon exactly as Bezos did, but with the strong belief that after 20+ years of extremely dedicated work on your part you'll still feel like the rest of the world deserves the payoff more than you do?
4) Find out you're mostly interested in video games and can't be bothered to change history. Plus, it's really convenient to get those games from Amazon!
- sokoloff 8y agoTo be perfectly honest, I'd most likely invest in Amazon at the earliest chance I got and let Bezos build Amazon as he did. I don't worship Amazon (nor currently own any shares other than via index funds), but I'm a very happy customer of many of their businesses and think they've created vastly more good than ill. I'd rather they continue doing what they're doing.
- Apocryphon 8y agoInvest in Amazon and through Machiavellian schemes become majority shareholder, then force moral imperatives into the corporate culture.