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Amazon is unfortunately a very convenient plague on our beautiful ppanet, and Bezos seems like a borderline (if not outright) psychopath. it's late and i need

Amazon is unfortunately a very convenient plague on our beautiful ppanet, and Bezos seems like a borderline (if not outright) psychopath. it's late and i need to sleep, but just search the internet for "Jeff Bezos is a scumbag" and you'll see that people don't "just" hate him because he's filthy rich (nothing wrong with being filthy rich, lots of great people are!). https://trofire.com/2019/01/28/scumbag-jeff-bezos-to-lose-billions-after-affair-exposed/ https://trofire.com/2019/01/28/scumbag-jeff-bezos-to-lose-bi... https://www.grunge.com/143621/the-dark-truth-about-amazon-founder-jeff-bezos/ https://www.grunge.com/143621/the-dark-truth-about-amazon-fo... there is a lot more but I am tired. we should all boycott/avoid using Amazon.

f6v 5y ago
That's just tabloid quality posts.
Applejinx 5y ago
You can't single out Bezos as being a psychopath, though, because all people in Bezos-like positions are psychopaths. Otherwise they don't end up in Bezos-like positions. The question is really, how do you constrain them so they can be psychopaths but integrate into society in a useful way: they're already making themselves useful in some ways, but by their nature they have to push for more and more until they ruin everything including themselves. It's a larger and more interesting question than whether these captains of industry are good or nice or healthy. You can assume they're not trustworthy and then go from there. Hell, all of crypto is based on the idea that people aren't trustworthy: not a big stretch to take that literally and assume that business operators aren't trustworthy.
dang 5y ago
Please don't fulminate on HN. That's in the site guidelines: "Please don't fulminate." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Regardless of how you feel about $Bigco, plagues on planets, psychopaths, and similar rhetoric makes for bad HN threads, and we're trying to avoid those here. Thoughtful critique is welcome of course. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27685624 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27685624.
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f6v 5y ago

That's just tabloid quality posts.

Applejinx 5y ago

You can't single out Bezos as being a psychopath, though, because all people in Bezos-like positions are psychopaths. Otherwise they don't end up in Bezos-like positions. The question is really, how do you constrain them so they can be psychopaths but integrate into society in a useful way: they're already making themselves useful in some ways, but by their nature they have to push for more and more until they ruin everything including themselves. It's a larger and more interesting question than whether these captains of industry are good or nice or healthy. You can assume they're not trustworthy and then go from there. Hell, all of crypto is based on the idea that people aren't trustworthy: not a big stretch to take that literally and assume that business operators aren't trustworthy.

dang 5y ago

Please don't fulminate on HN. That's in the site guidelines: "Please don't fulminate." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Regardless of how you feel about $Bigco, plagues on planets, psychopaths, and similar rhetoric makes for bad HN threads, and we're trying to avoid those here. Thoughtful critique is welcome of course. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27685624 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27685624.

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