The Bezos backlash is bigger than Blue Origin’s success
1–10 of 55 posts
Re: The Bezos backlash is bigger than Blue Origin’s success
#2Re: The Bezos backlash is bigger than Blue Origin’s success
#3In the last month it seems that Amazon has incessantly asked my opinion about every product and service I use (e.g. the store, Amazon Music, ...)
My answer is always some variant of "I don't like the way you treat the help"
Re: The Bezos backlash is bigger than Blue Origin’s success
#4"My dad got to watch Neil Armstrong walk on the moon.
I get to watch the guy who killed book stores ride a giant dick into space."
Re: The Bezos backlash is bigger than Blue Origin’s success
#5I’m personally rather bored with the hobbies and tastes of these modern tech billionaires like Jeff and Elon. A few years back, there was a total global circumnavigation of the world in a solar powered 2 person airplane based in Switzerland, I forget the project name. This thing did not have to land to charge batteries but could stay aloft indefinitely, albeit at a very floppy wing surface area to weight ratio, and the resulting vulnerability to wind and low speed. Such a project or something that presents and actual investment that only a billionaire could provide are eschewed in favor of juvenile pissing contests like Mr. Branson and Mr. Bezos pursue
Re: The Bezos backlash is bigger than Blue Origin’s success
#6"My dad got to watch Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. I get to watch the guy who killed book stores ride a giant dick into space." https://ibb.co/t2tcN3p
Imagine if we taxed the enormous wealth of billionaires and used it for the good of many in society instead of inflating the ego of a single person. Our society is sick and I don't think people will stand for this level of inequality much longer.
Re: The Bezos backlash is bigger than Blue Origin’s success
#7I’m personally rather bored with the hobbies and tastes of these modern tech billionaires like Jeff and Elon. A few years back, there was a total global circumnavigation of the world in a solar powered 2 person airplane based in Switzerland, I forget the project name. This thing did not have to land to charge batteries but could stay aloft indefinitely, albeit at a very floppy wing surface area to weight ratio, and t…
>juvenile pissing contests like Mr. Branson and Mr. Bezos pursue
This is really all it is, it's rich guys performing for other rich guys while the rest of us fight for scraps. It's sickening to me that so many people defend the honor of rich CEOs like Bezos, Branson, Musk, Gates, etc because they truly think that more money = better than.
Re: The Bezos backlash is bigger than Blue Origin’s success
#8In the last month it seems that Amazon has incessantly asked my opinion about every product and service I use (e.g. the store, Amazon Music, ...) My answer is always some variant of "I don't like the way you treat the help"
If you honestly don't like it though you should stop using their services, otherwise the message you are sending is that you care, but not really that much.
I know I'm in the minority, but I stopped shopping with Amazon long ago, closed my audible account, and have slowly been migrating my current workplace off our/their AWS infrastructure.
A handful of people have mentioned this is too much of a hardline stance, but personally I think it's important to take some actions if you truly want to see change in the world.
Re: The Bezos backlash is bigger than Blue Origin’s success
#9In the last month it seems that Amazon has incessantly asked my opinion about every product and service I use (e.g. the store, Amazon Music, ...) My answer is always some variant of "I don't like the way you treat the help"
If you honestly don't like it though you should stop using their services, otherwise the message you are sending is that you care, but not really that much. I know I'm in the minority, but I stopped shopping with Amazon long ago, closed my audible account, and have slowly been migrating my current workplace off our/their AWS infrastructure. A handful of people have mentioned this is too much of a hardline stance, but…
There is cutting back on their services while still using them. If your sales on the site halve as you complain, that also sends a message.
Re: The Bezos backlash is bigger than Blue Origin’s success
#10Of course it is.
Big successes do not erase equally big failures. And the failure here, not on Amazon alone, is far too many Americans not earning enough from their labor the fund continuing to exist reasonably and show up to work.