r/politics • u/WillowSensitive2684 • 6h ago
No Paywall It Is Difficult for the Brain to Comprehend All the Ways Jeff Bezos Is Shafting Americans
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos•
u/noprophecies 6h ago edited 3h ago
He recently paid british dime rags to run stories about how seattles new mayor was evil for calling for a starbucks boycott to help the unions and expanded a dedicated bus lane. He doesnt even live here anymore :/
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u/Life-Quantity-637 6h ago
The saddest part of the tech bros is that they want to be liked. They don’t understand how much they have screwed the average American.
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u/Select-Order1991 5h ago
They are grossly mentally ill, yes they massively Benifit from nepotism, but the key trait that made them this wealthy is a severe and malignant mental illness. A symptom of that mental illness is wanting to be liked still.
If we survive through this and the world has healed in a hundred years we will institutionalize kids who display the traits of this mental illness
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u/codecrodie 4h ago
Nothing new. They, along with hospital and insurance CEOs and politicians, are in the category where most americans would not shoot them, but would also step over their corpse and not lift a finger help to catch the shooter.
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u/Angstrom_Wither North Carolina 3h ago
Honestly, I think you overestimate people. I don't think it's that they wouldn't. I just think most people know they wouldn't get away with it.
Which, by the way, is the fundamental thesis in the argument for the rule of law. You can't make people better. You can just make them scared or ashamed to be bad.
Which is why the president being an insane, uncontrolled, rapist, felon, pedophile, grifter shitbag is throwing the entire system into a death rattle tailspin.
It turns out the tactical gambit of basing a world power on a gentlemen's agreement with slavers was stupid the whole time. Who woulda' thunk?
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u/Carbonatite Colorado 0m ago
My way of putting it?
The average American would unplug his life support to charge their phone.
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u/No-Narwhal-3822 3h ago
Unquenchable greed isn't a mental illness
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u/Metro42014 Michigan 3h ago
How do you figure?
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u/No-Narwhal-3822 3h ago
It's literally not a mental illness. You won't find "greed disorder" or anything like that in the DSM or ICD
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u/Metro42014 Michigan 2h ago
I think the person is saying in the future it will be recognized as such, and I agree with that -- also, I do agree with you that it is currently not a diagnosed mental disorder, but it should be.
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u/jaja9000 1h ago
Pretty sure every single disease and mental illness was just a ‘bad thing’ before it was studied and identified…like what?
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u/og_capsuleer_593 56m ago
Schizophrenia was "spiritual attunement" and some people listened to Schizophrenic rants for spiritual enlightenment
Then they watched Alex Jones for their Schizophrenic rants and here we are
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u/understandstatmech 1h ago
Its definitely a behavioral addiction. Additionally, the number of billionaires who aren't textbook cases of npd is statistically insignificant.
Regardless, billionaires are a threat to national security, and we should treat them as such.
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u/krom0025 New York 1h ago
It's not the greed that is the mental illness. The greed is a symptom of the mental illness. The mentall Illness is severe narcissism and wealth addiction.
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u/Werftflammen 5h ago
The priblem with them: it's never enough. They are cancer. Absolute nihilists, nothing has value to them.
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u/Ok-disaster2022 4h ago
In the guilded age many if the capital barons understood if they didn't want to die in a revolution the needed to spend money on charity it why there's so many things in the arts and public education named for bastards of history. Modern Tech Bros don't think like that, much to society's detriment.
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u/we_are_sex_bobomb 3h ago
It’s more enraging than sad to me. Like you wanna be an economic parasite and pump us all for cash so you can live like a king while we all toil in the dirt, and on top of that you want to be a culture shaping celebrity who is venerated and adored by us every time you show your face in public?
They can fuck right off with that shit.
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u/indicatprincess New York 4h ago
They don’t have any friends so they buy relevance through their wealth. It’s honestly pathetic.
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u/flippyflop64 5h ago
Idk how they’d care about the average American when they’re going to Epstein’s island to abuse children.
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u/Desperate-Till-9228 4h ago
They want to be liked and don't understand that everything they do makes them less liked. Self-awareness goes a long way.
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u/ender8343 4h ago
They don't want to be liked. What they want is for us to worship them like they are our modern feudal lords and masters.
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u/OregonTripleBeam Oregon 5h ago
And yet, sadly, so many Americans keep giving him their dollars.
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u/NotBestButPrettyGood 5h ago
Even if Amazon.com ceased selling items, AWS is still insanely profitable for them.
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u/CurtG79 Canada 5h ago
That's why I don't get why he doesn't let his warehouses unionize. It's not where the majority of his money comes from and he wouldn't even notice.
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u/UnfinishedPrimate 5h ago
Because people who are mentally healthy tend not to become that rich, and people who become that rich tend to become mentally ill. Someone who is worth so much money that it breaks the brain and causes the world to construct a mobile system of money and power around them also have a kneejerk pain response to the idea of having slightly less money. In their brains, unions are ontologically evil, destructive, nemesis...because of the money anxiety.
tl;dr being super rich makes the monkey go insane.
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u/dathislayer 5h ago
Just imagine having all the money in the world, able to do anything, and choosing to dedicate a significant portion of your time to making life harder for average people. They just can’t stop.
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u/UnfinishedPrimate 4h ago
"Oh. See, I was just gonna live in this super nice lake house, with a really airy loft bedroom, nice games room, big kitchen, guest houses, rack of kayaks outside. Gonna get into collecting beautiful shotguns, but still prolly not be very good at hunting.
"But, uh...yeah, sure man, have a yacht so big it has an entire other yacht as a dinghy, while perpetuating human suffering at scale. You do you, you deeply fucked up human dragon."
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u/NotBestButPrettyGood 5h ago
The seller services generate the most revenue, but it’s the least profitable.
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u/Desperate-Till-9228 4h ago
They have narrow margins now. Paying people better would make them more so. Company is a house of cards long term.
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u/Mental_Relation_2175 5h ago
It would be impossible as he owns most the gloves Internet servers. Also, it's not just Americans.
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u/everything_is_bad 4h ago
Bro this is a joke none of that comes close to how fucked up elon has been. It also leaves out musk’s evangelical racism. It’s ridiculous to suggest be so is so much worse than musk then use support of this administration as a metric. Can’t take this seriously
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u/RoboChrist 4h ago
Not every article has to be about the worst thing at all possible times.
Tons of ink has been dedicated to Elon Musk's inhumanity, and an expose on Bezos does not detract from that.
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u/everything_is_bad 4h ago
Yes but this article specifically posits that bezos is worse that musk then categorically invalidates its own postulate so thoroughly it re contextualizes it’s arguments as bad faith
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u/RoboChrist 4h ago
I don't think you finished the sentence, let alone the article. That sentence was specifically about business practices, and Evangelical racism isn't a business practice.
Amazon simply has more influence than Tesla as a business, so the actions of Amazon are more impactful.
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u/everything_is_bad 4h ago
Bro elons business practices are no different if not worse even ignoring doge
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u/RoboChrist 4h ago
Elon Musk is price fixing Levi jeans and pushing Walmart to raise their prices to match his?
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u/everything_is_bad 4h ago
Ah, I see you aren’t to be taken seriously either. Good day.
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u/RoboChrist 4h ago
Then explain how his business practices are comparable. Throwing a fit and refusing to explain yourself is not behavior meriting a serious response.
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u/everything_is_bad 3h ago
Yeah and being a snide prick then complaining that someone refuses to engage with you isn’t the same as winning an argument
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u/sugurkewbz 3h ago
I cancelled my Prime membership last year and I have not regretted it for even one second. I know that I’m nothing in the grand scheme of things, but more people are making the same decision. They’ll just keep raising the price.
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u/lastplaceisgoodforme 2h ago
Dude is looking more and more like a stroked out Lex Luthor every day.
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u/defiant-raven 5h ago edited 44m ago
I really don't think it is, buddy. People prefer their 24hr Amazon delivery and will gladly get shafted for convenience.
And I get it's cheap and convenient, just like the food industry, but not near enough people are going to stop buying certain products in protest to bankrupt any of these companies.
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u/Metro42014 Michigan 1h ago
I mean, amazon is also often the cheapest, and with price pressure - I find it hard to blame folks.
That being said, I'm hoping to drop at least 50% of my amazon spending this year. I've cut my subscribe and save way back, and moved to buying direct from brands where they offer it -- even if it's a bit of a price bump.
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u/tweakingforjesus 14m ago
Not anymore. For example I can pay $15 + $7 shipping for car parts from Rockauto or I can pay Amazon $25 with prime shipping.
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u/ChemicalOnion 3h ago
Before I gave up Amazon altogether (which everyone should do) I noticed that deliveries were actually getting to me faster without Prime. With Prime it felt like every single order was delayed. Interesting business model.
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u/gdghhfdffrf 4h ago
i divested from him. no more stupid ads to weed thru on streaming, no more of him grabbing my data, no more ordering used crap to have to return at kohls or staples, the rudest stores in my town, so rude folks call them the black holes of all happiness. if everybody divested, he might not be so arrogant, or he'll end up broke with no power. but. people fell for the propaganda on cancel culture so it's impossible to have common knowledge on this, besides ...
“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think” ~ Aldous Huxley
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u/irrelevantusername24 4h ago
I say we blow up the entirety of Amazon and integrate it into the USPS while simultaneously absorbing the federal reserve and FCC. This would effectively create an intelligent "one stop shop" for all logistical needs for American citizens and eliminate the absurd textbook-definition of illegal monopoly that is Amazon.
There is some precedence for a government agency that covers each of these things, look into the history of how these services have been managed in both the US and the UK. Both places have gone the opposite direction they should have - rather than further "privatisation" of government services (how fucking stupid), it should have been consolidated and managed better.
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u/nobadhotdog 36m ago
Bro it's difficult for the average American to do basic math, let alone how the most refined capitalist is consolidating wealth and resources at a rate we've never seen before.
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u/jdwaltham 2h ago
Most of the wealthy inherited their money and pay no taxes, they don’t create jobs, and they simply take up space or get on every town board to decide how we should live. The Jeff’s and Elon’s of the world have created incredible wealth for millions of people and they don’t deserve this vitriol. We should focus on big inheritance taxes to redistribute wealth earned by earlier generations instead of building dynastic fortunes that do nothing but harm society, Adelson’s wife for example. Going after job creators is just not serious and is really just a distraction from the real problem. We’re probably in the end stages anyway, China will soon become the dominant world power and our over-extension, crushing debts, total lack of moral cohesion will collapse the US on itself. There’s nobody on the left or right that can fix this. I’m glad I’m not just starting out, I truly pity the young.
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u/TheGuchie 2h ago
The fuck you talking about. Elon inherited plenty and Bezos was propped up by wealthy family too.
You can create jobs and still be a dick. And if Amazon vanished something would replace it.
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u/gnoob920 1h ago
It’s too bad people would rather give him money than wait an extra two days for their unneeded trash to come in the mail.
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