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There's nothing wrong with reaping the benefits when you are providing people with direly needed goods that local governments foolishly prohibit small shops fro
by lazyjones 6y ago
There's nothing wrong with reaping the benefits when you are providing people with direly needed goods that local governments foolishly prohibit small shops from selling.
- 8fGTBjZxBcHq 6y agoyah there fucking is lol. mega-wealth like bezos has accumulated is so so far beyond "reaping the benefits" of any of his own labor or imagination. that's the lives of workers he's hoarding in the form of wealth too great for him to use. that is extremely wrong by my moral standards, both personally on him for doing it and collectively on us for allowing it.
- perryizgr8 6y ago> that is extremely wrong by my moral standards Selling people what they want for cheap prices is extremely wrong?
- lazyjones 6y agoArguably, those workers aren't paid below typical levels and would not earn more elsewhere. Not being extra generous is key to Amazon's profitability, which ensures those workers have job security. You could argue that Amazon should let workers benefit directly from the profits, but by going public, they let anyone who wants benefit directly by buying shares. I'm way more concerned with Bezos' political ambitions (as oligarch with his own, pretty terrible and partisan, newspaper and who knows what other sorts of lobbying).