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It's more complicated than that. Jeff Bezos has a lot of money and relatively little political power. You can't just be rich; you also have to be in the right s
by centimeter 6y ago
It's more complicated than that. Jeff Bezos has a lot of money and relatively little political power. You can't just be rich; you also have to be in the right social groups.
If money truly equaled political power, we'd look more like Hong Kong pre-1997 (and arguably pre-2020).
- teruakohatu 6y ago> relatively little political power He bought a newspaper. I would say he has plenty of political power.
- pueblito 6y agoTo add to this, he owns the Washington Post, THE paper for DC
- alistairSH 6y agoHe also had cities across the country doing cartwheels to get HQ2. He got an entire neighborhood in Arlington VA renamed, got a heliport approved, and other perks.
- centimeter 6y agoBeing able to advertise to the proles isn’t actually that valuable without a level of coordination that’s beyond bezos.
- icefrakker 6y agoLOL Jeff Bezos has relatively little political power and I'm the king of Gondor.
- TheRealDunkirk 6y agoIf you're worth a hundred billion dollars, your Senators will be calling YOU for lunch, no matter who your friends are.
- f430 6y agocan we please ban centimeter please? this guy is an actual racist https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25954606 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25954606