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It’s even worse then; they truly own less than they claim and are just de facto in charge because economists (who I’m sure have nothing to gain by it) let us kn

It’s even worse then; they truly own less than they claim and are just de facto in charge because economists (who I’m sure have nothing to gain by it) let us know this is all exactly how it works If you see everyone as atomic agents of work, is Bezos worth so much because of cherry picked models favored by law, or is he himself distributing goods in a universally mathematically efficient way by some unknown force, invisible hands and “free markets (in a nation of laws?)”? If he’s literally doing it, wow! Ok. But if it’s mathematical efficiency it’s mathematical efficiency. Bezos didn’t measure it. He took object distribution and abstracted it. Wow! Business innovation! Nevermind guys like Krugman openly admit Hari Seldon like powers of bending social agency are exactly his goal That’s great if the people in charge are truly benevolent Old enough to wreck the planet and die before it’s a problem doesn’t really suggest to me they’re going to be motivated to voluntarily acquiesce to measurable anxiety this creates for folks that aren’t quite so old Again more disingenuous western BS That carbon emissions have detrimental effects on human health and the environment was pretty obvious in London and elsewhere back in the day But since it’s not in your neighborhood, those laws of physics that matter for computers are lying to us when we annotate the inputs differently? Ok. Yup. Shark jump achieved.

bhupy 6y ago
> If you see everyone as atomic agents of work, is Bezos worth so much because of cherry picked models favored by law, or is he himself distributing goods in a universally mathematically efficient way by some unknown force, invisible hands and “free markets (in a nation of laws?)”? > If he’s literally doing it, wow! Ok. But if it’s mathematical efficiency it’s mathematical efficiency. Bezos didn’t measure it. He took object distribution and abstracted it. Wow! Business innovation! I guess optimization of global supply chains in a way that enables anyone to practically materialize literally anything they want within 2 days might not count to you as a real “innovation”, so I’ll take a different angle. Half of Amazon’s revenue comes from Amazon Web Services. Starting a business today is easier than it has ever been, thanks in large part to AWS. I work at a small seed-stage tech startup, and our product runs on infrastructure that, until recently, was only available to giant blue chip corporations with the resources to employ 100s of engineers to maintain datacenters, databases, tooling, monitoring & alerting, load balancing, etc. All of that is now available to our tiny little team for a simple monthly subscription fee. You can attribute the value of most startups today to the availability of this infrastructure as a service. > That carbon emissions have detrimental effects on human health and the environment was pretty obvious in London and elsewhere back in the day Not sure how this is relevant to income tax rates, gig workers, or labor unions — but we probably agree that carbon emissions are bad. IMO we should tax emissions as much as possible.

bhupy 6y ago

> If you see everyone as atomic agents of work, is Bezos worth so much because of cherry picked models favored by law, or is he himself distributing goods in a universally mathematically efficient way by some unknown force, invisible hands and “free markets (in a nation of laws?)”? > If he’s literally doing it, wow! Ok. But if it’s mathematical efficiency it’s mathematical efficiency. Bezos didn’t measure it. He took object distribution and abstracted it. Wow! Business innovation! I guess optimization of global supply chains in a way that enables anyone to practically materialize literally anything they want within 2 days might not count to you as a real “innovation”, so I’ll take a different angle. Half of Amazon’s revenue comes from Amazon Web Services. Starting a business today is easier than it has ever been, thanks in large part to AWS. I work at a small seed-stage tech startup, and our product runs on infrastructure that, until recently, was only available to giant blue chip corporations with the resources to employ 100s of engineers to maintain datacenters, databases, tooling, monitoring & alerting, load balancing, etc. All of that is now available to our tiny little team for a simple monthly subscription fee. You can attribute the value of most startups today to the availability of this infrastructure as a service. > That carbon emissions have detrimental effects on human health and the environment was pretty obvious in London and elsewhere back in the day Not sure how this is relevant to income tax rates, gig workers, or labor unions — but we probably agree that carbon emissions are bad. IMO we should tax emissions as much as possible.