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Yeah, it looks bad, but only if you pretend that the ideas these visionaries pioneered were worthless. To take a single example, it might seem obscene that Bezo
by FactKnower69 2y ago
Yeah, it looks bad, but only if you pretend that the ideas these visionaries pioneered were worthless. To take a single example, it might seem obscene that Bezos' net worth would take 32 million years of continuous work for the average Amazon warehouse worker to accrue, but without him who would have come up with the idea of using a computer to buy things on the internet?
- JohnMakin 2y agoYou.. think bezos invented ecommerce? It long predates amazon. Amazon wasn't even the first online bookstore!
- FactKnower69 2y agoHow else would he make two hundred billion dollars? Paying employees coerced into selling their labor a wage which is less than the value their labor creates? Ridiculous
- psunavy03 2y agoIt's not just being able to come up with the idea, it's being able to build a team and execute without the company going under.
- rootusrootus 2y agoI think Bezos has a halfway decent claim at being a visionary, at least compared to people like Musk, but let's be real -- ecommerce existed way before Amazon. He is a skilled businessman and built a wildly successful monopoly, but I don't see many concepts that he pioneered.
- ks2048 2y agoYeah, but "one click checkout"? Before Amazon, all the greatest minds could come up with was 2 and 3 click checkout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click#Patent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click#Patent