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I never really understood the parable of "The Emperor's New Clothes" until the last few years, but at the deepest level it's about the ability for the powerful
by hotpotamus 5y ago
I never really understood the parable of "The Emperor's New Clothes" until the last few years, but at the deepest level it's about the ability for the powerful to create their own reality and enforce it on others. When do you think Bezos last heard the word "no" in relation to any question he's had?
- ryandrake 5y agoThis is probably an urban legend but I read somewhere that when Jeff Bezos uses Amazon, behind the scenes it actually routes him to a separate special instance that has all his feature requests in it, so nobody has to say “no” to him. It’s just believable enough that I remember it. The higher up on the corporate ladder one is, the less possible it is to tell him “no.”