I guess the 500k+ Amazon employees can thank daddy Bezos for creating so much value since they had nothing to do with it, eh? 
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“Bezos and Amazon”
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This is unfortunately too simple... how much has been taken away from mom and pop stores? Hardware stores? Groceries? It’s an impressive transfer of wealth into one larger group, likely the result of many many small orgs losing their lunch.
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not saying overall Amazon hasn’t been a wonderfully additive creation, but just saying I don’t think that’s the right way to think about it.
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Mom and pop stores were on their way out long before Amazon. Big box retailers like Walmart and Home Depot did them in.
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You’re missing the point
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The point is creative deconstruction. When somebody does a thing better and more efficiently, others go out of business. We can wax nostaligic about mom-&-pop shops all day, just like we can romanticize agrarian lifestyle, but the fact is people value modernity more.
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It’s not an argument about a rom. past, but an observation that a sector which used 2 prop up an ownership class of SMB entreps +
mobility vehicle for immigrants now reallocates that
2 shareholders. There are benefits of course but it’s 2 early 2 grasp fallout of new arrngmnt
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And that doesn’t even include the consumer surplus.
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I have a fantastic list of things I would do with $147b - including a giant mixing bowl giving kids jobs and apartments in the middle of the country - and serious help getting voters to the polls. $50B on that alone.
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Then all you have to do is go make $147B and you can spend it however you please :)
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Ppl always have great ideas on how to spend other ppl's money
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I think it's cute how protective you are of Bezos' money. Sweet, really.
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Not at all. I just have no opinions on how he should spend his money. We can do things that help society without the billions. Instead of telling him what he should do, we can do the things we can do.

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I wrote a post about what I would do with $147B because it's an interesting mental exercise. You took time out of your day to make a snarky comment because you chose to read that I was "telling him how to spend his money."
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I wasn't being snarky at all. Just leaving a comment on how I feel about this. I'm not a snarky person
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and much much more than that if you think of value as overall wealth created for society!
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That market value doesn't actually represent real world value, just made up stock market value. Real world value = roofs over heads, food in bellies, clean baby butts, healthy communities. The most real world value inheres to the work that the market puts the lowest $ value on.
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Each of those real world values are things that Amazon, and Bezos in particular, are literally preventing people from having through bad treatment of workers and by blocking Seattle traces to pay for community services.
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