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Wow… a guy that directly employed almost 2 million people and indirectly improved the lives of tens of millions of dependents in the Amazon ecosystem is a dysto
by eric4smith 5y ago
Wow… a guy that directly employed almost 2 million people and indirectly improved the lives of tens of millions of dependents in the Amazon ecosystem is a dystopian person.
Bezos is far from perfect, but do we really think that that was his primary consideration of building and growing Amazon?
Pretty much every organization that gets large enough tends to rot from the inside and get dystopian, despite the efforts of the founders.
Anyone remember “don’t be evil”? Right.
Maybe, just maybe, he resigned because he couldn’t deal with the dystopian aspects of how Amazon grew.
My point is that it’s not a good idea to put the fact that a huge organization becomes “dystopian” at the feet of its founder.
- fukmbas 5y agoBezos is probably the worst billionaire ever
- epakai 5y agoBezos was well aware and a part of this growth. He was there personally when the company I worked for was acquired. He offered a silly anecdote about a breakfast octopus to the then CEO. In some ways the company has lived on past the CEOs desires to maintain it, but it's also not the same place. It's effectively turned into a way to push overstocked amazon wares. What was a big push to bring temporary employees on full-time 2 years prior has probably been disassembled for Amazon style hiring. After I left a enclosed cage and turnstile was added to the warehouse employee entrance (probably loss prevention, not totally unneeded, but who wants to feel like a prisoner at their job).
- contravariant 5y agoIs it really that unfair to blame the guy who profited most from it? If as you say increasing the size of an organization inevitably leads to a dystopian behemoth shouldn't we condemn people who do exactly that to grow their wealth?