this whole trend of “undertaxed oligarchs suddenly creating parallel public works the government would fund if they weren’t starved of tax dollars by oligarchs” is super cool and very in line with equality and democracy
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Ah yes, if the government had a higher percentage of Bezos’s wealth they would absolutely be solving that problem and wpuld be doing so very well
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Lambda is awesome because they genuinely care about increasing prosperity for individuals. Looking at Amazon's track record, there is reason to question whether they would have the same core values, or whether they would benefit more from wage suppression.
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I think Amazon cares deeply about pleasing its customers, to the extent that it alllws itself to squeeze vendors and partners
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No doubt, the customer experience is excellent and next level genius. The fulfillment center, out here in Phoenix, made recent headlines for how workers are treated (withheld bathroom breaks / paid below living wages). Its an interesting dynamic.
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I'm concerned about this, as you say, wage suppression, as Lambda scales. Your sympathies seem to lie more with Bezos than the worker issues that are making the news. I haven't seen you comment on that at all. Only defense of Bezos.
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Imagine a world where Bezos (and everyone) pay taxes and you can control where that money goes like charitable giving


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Imagine a world where Bezos stops donating money.
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Or anyone...
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Hey, I guess you’re conflating potential to create more options for education with “we want rich people to do that for us”. I assume you’re Libertarian, but LOL look how easily it’s derailing to Paternalism... 1/2
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2/2 you want the People to have that power? Then we don’t need more billionaires, but more taxes and better participation to collective governance.
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I like the ”(and all people)” bit but am repulsed by most of your reply. You yourself are doing a good job creating interesting novel new schooling but only in the limited realm of the most aggressive, prosperous industry out there.
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We don't have anywhere near the capability we need to be trying new things for education, & leaving trials to high growth sectors & the fantastically rich sounds like society quaffing the hemlock.
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Imagine thinking adding a bureaucracy to an investment making decision by ideologues would assist in the purpose of the mission.
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Yeh, eventually ideologues would pop up claiming it’s time to “starve the beast” to get rid of this bureaucracy
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Nailed it. I don't understand how people can criticize him for donating $2B dollars. It will change thousands of lives.
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What Bezos is doing is good. The main criticism I have of Bezos is how much of his empire is due to coercively holding down competition using patents. One calculation has just the one-click patent netting $2.4 billion in annual revenues. How would Amazon fare in a free market?
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Nobody is saying it’s not a good thing, but should people be praised for being good if they have been bad leading up to it?
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