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On the other hand AWS basically saved the world from economically collapsing by WFH made possible through the innovation of turn key massive distributed compute
by lowdose 5y ago
On the other hand AWS basically saved the world from economically collapsing by WFH made possible through the innovation of turn key massive distributed compute capabilities to anyone with a credit card. AWS offered GPU's in 2015, it took both Google and Microsoft 4 years to make a comparable offer.
- teawrecks 5y agoIf this is a team effort and capitalism is benefiting us as a society as intended, then the majority of people should feel better off that we had amazon here to help us through a time of need, and amazon should feel appropriately rewarded for its technological foresight. If instead this is a war between corporations and society, then we would expect to see a huge number of people feel like amazon exploited them in a time of weakness, furthered an already bad state of wealth inequality and classism, and accrued an order of magnitude more power over everyone than they had before. Which outcome do you think is a better reflection of reality?