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For the crime of breaking numerous state and city laws to favor what he wants, moving money in such a way his company pays little to no federal taxes, creating
by bojo 5y ago
For the crime of breaking numerous state and city laws to favor what he wants, moving money in such a way his company pays little to no federal taxes, creating horrible working conditions in warehouses, and the list goes on.
- bananabreakfast 5y agoExcept, none of those are crimes. Immoral maybe, but not doing these things means you will have your success taken away by someone who does.
- eurasiantiger 5y agoBy that logic, we need to start killing people immediately, because not doing that means we will have our success taken away by someone who does. Is that perhaps a non sequitur?
- Tronno 5y agoThe OP accuses Bezos of being a horrible person, not a criminal.
- metagame 5y ago«For the crime of breaking numerous state and city laws» «Except, none of those are crimes.» Breaking the law is the textbook definition of a crime, isn't it?
- monkeycantype 5y agoNo, just for shaking that champagne everywhere while Shatner was trying to have a conversation
- oarabbus_ 5y agoIf only the world was so black-and-white that you could look at all the negative impacts of an individual, consider none of the positive impacts, and conclude they are a bad person.
- cogman10 5y agoFrankly, this isn't a Bezos failing but a government failing. We shouldn't be beholden to our employers to have good working conditions and we shouldn't be mad at uber wealthy companies for using the taxcode to avoid paying taxes. There are 100s of individuals and companies doing exactly what Bezos has done. We solve nothing by blaming companies for working withing the confines of law and being shitty. Blame legislators that have allowed for such a system to exist. Vote in primaries and public for politicians that are looking at making things better for the individual.
- oneplane 5y agoI think it's pretty safe so say it's a double failure. A human abusing other humans is a failure of that first human. If there were other humans, a third party, that were supposed to protect the now-abused humans, then that is also a failure. Just because there was no law that said "do not be an asshole" doesn't mean that an asshole is any less of an asshole. Doing it at Bezos-scale makes it a Bezos-scale asshole problem.
- ipaddr 5y agoThis is 100% his choice and we should be allowed to get mad if we choose to at his actions and for selfishly stealing from society for personal gain. I would only blame the government if they forced him to do this. He had free choice.
- cogman10 5y agoI do understand why people are mad at bezos. However, the way I see it is that the government gave bezos and others the ability to act like this. When slavery was legal, were the individual plantation owners terrible? Yes. However, it was the lack of government protections that allowed them to continue operating. Trying to draw the distinction between bezos and other billionaires feels like trying to compare one slave owner to the next and hoping that somehow that condemnation would make them grow a conscience. Slavery didn't end in the US because abolitionists condemned slave owners. It ended because it was made illegal through the force of law (and in the end, a civil war). Companies abusing their employees and the tax code won't go away because you dislike them. Those practices will only stop if the law changes.