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I don’t know that the NYT has it out for Bezos, but he’s a very easy target. He has a long reputation of treating employees badly while amassing enormous wealth
by ryanhuff 8y ago
I don’t know that the NYT has it out for Bezos, but he’s a very easy target. He has a long reputation of treating employees badly while amassing enormous wealth.
- biocomputation 8y agoYes, it's just this simple. I don't know why more people can't understand how basic this is.
- mtgx 8y agoThe better question is - why are so many in such a hurry to defend billionaires?
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoI don't know, I think it's right to question journalists' motives in an attempt to keep them honest. This works both ways.
- harrumph 8y ago>The better question is - why are so many in such a hurry to defend billionaires? I think it's because the tech industry is positively lousy with deluded persons who see themselves as embryonic billionaires. When you believe your asshole sprays gold coins every time you update a git repo, you tend to overlook that production is arranged under capitalism to have the ownership class expropriate the majority of the value that workers create.
- skookumchuck 8y agoSeattle is full of multi-millionaire ex-Amazon workers.
- lexs 8y agoprobably not warehouse workers then