I have to infer that the #Bezos#newspaper, #WashingtonPost, is getting out ahead of a truly terrible story about #GoodReads ... Corrupt reviews and bullying are a bad enough story to kill the platform, but still -- Reading this piece, I feel like there's something worse wriggling under the covers about to come crawling out. (Paywalled.)
The Mars2020 mission costs roughly $2.75 billion over 11 years. Musk, allegedly the richest person on Earth, is worth (checks https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk/) $236B. That's 85 Mars missions, leaving $2.25B for Musk to live a peasant's life. Bezos is worth $148B, that is 53 Mars missions plus a peasant's pension. That's 138 missions to Mars for just two people retiring early.
Suddenly this is not funny any more. Not funny at all
10€ for one #Audible book a month FFS! 10€ a month for #Spotify. #Amazon may well be, against my better judgement, the best option. Let's send #Bezos in to space. Ground control to Amazon... Commencing countdown, have you put the sales on? Also, best #vpn shopping so as to join the criminal élément people ? #nordvpn ? I need to pay monthly though. Tips(y)? 🍺
"Yes, #Isaacson spoke to “adversaries” like Jeff #Bezos and Bill #Gates, but not (at least per the list) to line workers, not to #Jenna, not to anyone whose family member died in an #Autopilot crash, nor anyone who tried to organize a #Tesla plant.
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It’s the book Musk would have written himself.""
#StokeSpace 📆 Oct 10, 2022 “I love Jeff’s vision for #space. Beyond that, I think I would just say that I will let their history of #execution speak for itself, and I thought we could move #faster.”
Illness: Kessler Syndrome
Cause: Billionaires
Consequence: Epic space pollution for a thousand years.
Based on the near miss stats from #Starlink that emerged recently, someone needs to be the grown-up in the room and prevent the satellite catastrophe that's coming from this billionaire ego clash.
Also, at least spaceX have experience in sat-ops. Amazon? not so much.
Watching the Challenger doc on Netflix and thinking about how the first civilian in the space program was a wonderful Teacher. Reagan made a big speech about it when he announced a teacher would be selected. Her loss with the crew was devastating. Today all the civilians in the private space launches are rich and famous. It says alot about how our society has changed since 1986. #Challenger#Spaceflight#teacher#NASA#SpaceX#Bezos#Musk#BlueOrigin#VirginGalactic
How much free advertising does #amazon need from #journalists? I mean is #bezos to poor to pay for actual ads?
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Maybe the damn reason #news#media are losing money is because they give away so much free advertising under the guise of articles companies don’t need to actual pay for actual #advertising
Amazon's EV company, Rivian, started 5 years ago when they bought a Mitsubishi factory in Illinois. At the old factory workers were union, made $30/hr, and had great benefits. Now, 25 years later, Rivian workers start at $20/hr, have no union, and injuries ran rampant.
Very amusing 4-minute video by Robert Reich about how Musk and Bezos want to dismantle government protection for workers.
Quote by RR:
"14 mei 2024
Nothing tells you how important unions are like corporations controlled by the richest men on earth suing to dismantle the government agency that protects the right to organize."
The agency accused Amazon of using the app, which can be set to automatically delete messages, to hide information related to the FTC’s ongoing #antitrust investigation into the company #security#privacy
Jeff Bezos urged Amazon to flood search results with junk ads, FTC alleges (www.cnbc.com)
Amazon's ads strategy helped pump its profits while steering shoppers to higher-priced goods, the agency alleges.