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> Jeff Bezos is not the monster here - he's just responding to market forces. Market forces are not moral. You don't get a free pass on your actions because y

> Jeff Bezos is not the monster here - he's just responding to market forces. Market forces are not moral. You don't get a free pass on your actions because you made a bunch of money.

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dsabanin 7y ago
The way different societies organize themselves is they tend to incentivize behavior that is beneficial to their continuation. Society who incentivizes non-beneficial behavior will eventually collapse and be replaced by a more fitting one. If society is to give out free passes for suboptimal behavior to anyone, it's going to be to those who provide it the most value. Kind of like Amazon does to a lot of people right now.
- harajuku 7y ago
  No, you've just swallowed the marketspeak to the point where you think that societies are actively favoring rational net benefits over short-term, destructive cashouts. Calling unethical behavior on a massive scale "suboptimal" and smoothing over the fallout doesn't make you sound smart and analytical, it means you're not thinking hard enough. Societies organize themselves and collapse all the time--what exactly makes Amazon beneficial to the continuation of our own? It would be beneficial to think critically about what goes on inside.
- viklove 7y ago
  If that were the case, slavery would still be legal
- subhobroto 6y ago
  > If society is to give out free passes for suboptimal behavior to anyone, it's going to be to those who provide it the most value. Kind of like Amazon does to a lot of people right now. Right on! I don't understand why this is so hard to understand.
three_seagrass 7y ago
America has a weird wealth worship complex, though maybe worship isn't the right word. It's assumed that if you have wealth you are some sort of genius to be listened to about what's the moral right thing to do.
- d1zzy 7y ago
  It's called a value system. Some things are valued more than others in certain cultures.
m000 7y ago
You also don't get a free pass to cry bloody murder after resisting all market regulation efforts and then having your ass handed to you by Jeff Bezos.

> Jeff Bezos is not the monster here - he's just responding to market forces. Market forces are not moral. You don't get a free pass on your actions because you made a bunch of money.

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dsabanin 7y ago

The way different societies organize themselves is they tend to incentivize behavior that is beneficial to their continuation. Society who incentivizes non-beneficial behavior will eventually collapse and be replaced by a more fitting one. If society is to give out free passes for suboptimal behavior to anyone, it's going to be to those who provide it the most value. Kind of like Amazon does to a lot of people right now.

harajuku 7y ago
No, you've just swallowed the marketspeak to the point where you think that societies are actively favoring rational net benefits over short-term, destructive cashouts. Calling unethical behavior on a massive scale "suboptimal" and smoothing over the fallout doesn't make you sound smart and analytical, it means you're not thinking hard enough. Societies organize themselves and collapse all the time--what exactly makes Amazon beneficial to the continuation of our own? It would be beneficial to think critically about what goes on inside.
viklove 7y ago
If that were the case, slavery would still be legal
subhobroto 6y ago
> If society is to give out free passes for suboptimal behavior to anyone, it's going to be to those who provide it the most value. Kind of like Amazon does to a lot of people right now. Right on! I don't understand why this is so hard to understand.

three_seagrass 7y ago

America has a weird wealth worship complex, though maybe worship isn't the right word. It's assumed that if you have wealth you are some sort of genius to be listened to about what's the moral right thing to do.

d1zzy 7y ago
It's called a value system. Some things are valued more than others in certain cultures.

m000 7y ago

You also don't get a free pass to cry bloody murder after resisting all market regulation efforts and then having your ass handed to you by Jeff Bezos.