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> CNBC has requested comment from Amazon. According to the article, Jeff Bezos is presumably afraid that Trump would continue to punish Amazon. If that is the

> CNBC has requested comment from Amazon. According to the article, Jeff Bezos is presumably afraid that Trump would continue to punish Amazon. If that is the case, this seems like an entirely futile exercise. Not that corporate PR responses are ever particularly illuminating. I read an article regarding information conveyed per syllable. English was near the top. Languages with less information per syllable like Spanish were spoken faster. In dead last place were PR statements from Fortune 500 companies.

jeffbee 2y ago
Imagine taking as many steroids as Jeff Bezos has taken, only to end up being afraid of an obese elderly man who cheats at golf. What was the point of all that flexing?
- energy123 2y ago
  On a serious note, this is an example of what historian Timothy Snyder refers to as "obeying in advance", where people predict what a repressive government will want and then obey before they're in power just to be safe. This creates a positive feedback loop that leads to them seizing power.
  - janalsncm 2y ago
    I read that book but didn’t connect the dots here. That is terrifying.
  - jeffbee 2y ago
    I am serious! But yes.
- arp242 2y ago
  Well, he does have a reasonable chance to be elected to presidency, so there's that. Morality and general spinelessness aside, it's clearly the sensible thing to do. You might anger a few sensible people but that will pass. Trump is not exactly known to be forgiving. Remember when he refused emergency aid to states that weren't supportive enough of him? That's the sort of decrepit small-minded snowflake we're talking about.
- defen 2y ago
  Maybe he's afraid Kamala Harris will champion an unrealized capital gains tax.
sleepybrett 2y ago
No, he's fucking terrified of lina khan. He won't endorse trump and poke the bear and he won't endorse harris because he's embittered. He's a cowardly monopolist.
- dralley 2y ago
  1) He already has experience with the Trump admin trying to deny AWS from government contracts on the basis of Trump's personal frustration with the Washington Post. 2) It's notable that his other significant enterprise is Blue Origin, whose competitor is Elon Musk, who has by now deeply and publicly ingratiated himself with the Trump campaign. Maybe Lina Khan is part of the story, but it's silly to act like there aren't more straightforwards reasons.
- janalsncm 2y ago
  That doesn’t make sense to me. Lina Khan already doesn’t like Amazon, she cut her teeth at Yale calling them out for antitrust. How is not endorsing Kamala Harris going to smooth that over? And it’s WaPo, which is entirely separate from Amazon as far as antitrust is concerned. Even within the internal logic of the equivalency between Donald Trump and Lena Khan it doesn’t make sense. It’s pretty clear he is afraid of Trump.
throwaway48476 2y ago
He's afraid of Vance. Trump is an egoist but Vance has an ideological dislike of amazon.
- webninja 2y ago
  Citation needed for your claim. I bet Vance likes Amazon and orders packages with 1 or 2 day shipping like everyone else. Usually it’s the likes of Elizabeth Warren et all that attack Amazon and similar sized companies.
  - throwaway48476 2y ago
    Vance is an anti monopolist and mentions it in every interview.

jeffbee 2y ago

Imagine taking as many steroids as Jeff Bezos has taken, only to end up being afraid of an obese elderly man who cheats at golf. What was the point of all that flexing?

energy123 2y ago
On a serious note, this is an example of what historian Timothy Snyder refers to as "obeying in advance", where people predict what a repressive government will want and then obey before they're in power just to be safe. This creates a positive feedback loop that leads to them seizing power.
- janalsncm 2y ago
  I read that book but didn’t connect the dots here. That is terrifying.
- jeffbee 2y ago
  I am serious! But yes.
arp242 2y ago
Well, he does have a reasonable chance to be elected to presidency, so there's that. Morality and general spinelessness aside, it's clearly the sensible thing to do. You might anger a few sensible people but that will pass. Trump is not exactly known to be forgiving. Remember when he refused emergency aid to states that weren't supportive enough of him? That's the sort of decrepit small-minded snowflake we're talking about.
defen 2y ago
Maybe he's afraid Kamala Harris will champion an unrealized capital gains tax.

sleepybrett 2y ago

No, he's fucking terrified of lina khan. He won't endorse trump and poke the bear and he won't endorse harris because he's embittered. He's a cowardly monopolist.

dralley 2y ago
1) He already has experience with the Trump admin trying to deny AWS from government contracts on the basis of Trump's personal frustration with the Washington Post. 2) It's notable that his other significant enterprise is Blue Origin, whose competitor is Elon Musk, who has by now deeply and publicly ingratiated himself with the Trump campaign. Maybe Lina Khan is part of the story, but it's silly to act like there aren't more straightforwards reasons.
janalsncm 2y ago
That doesn’t make sense to me. Lina Khan already doesn’t like Amazon, she cut her teeth at Yale calling them out for antitrust. How is not endorsing Kamala Harris going to smooth that over? And it’s WaPo, which is entirely separate from Amazon as far as antitrust is concerned. Even within the internal logic of the equivalency between Donald Trump and Lena Khan it doesn’t make sense. It’s pretty clear he is afraid of Trump.

throwaway48476 2y ago

He's afraid of Vance. Trump is an egoist but Vance has an ideological dislike of amazon.

webninja 2y ago
Citation needed for your claim. I bet Vance likes Amazon and orders packages with 1 or 2 day shipping like everyone else. Usually it’s the likes of Elizabeth Warren et all that attack Amazon and similar sized companies.
- throwaway48476 2y ago
  Vance is an anti monopolist and mentions it in every interview.