Jeff Bezos’s $150B Fortune Is a Policy Failure

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13 points·clumsysmurf··9 comments

In the age of Insta + Youtube (marketing) and Venmo/Stripe/Zelle (payment processing), I constantly wonder why people use Amazon to buy goods of questionable quality instead of from "artisans".

I was fed up with the quality of futons on Amazon, so I built my own :)

You think the shit on instagram is made by artisans? Its the same old aliexpress crap.

Not everyone man. Thats a pessimistic view to have. You can vet a person's stuff if you DM with them and they post in depth reviews of what they have on offer.

There are soooo many custom cars I would buy on social media and quite a few artists i would hire

Are you an Insta + Youtube marketer + Venmo/Stripe/Zelle seller because that is literally the last place I would go to buy something?

Yes, right now I'm making furniture and t shirts locally and trying to hawk them old school, but I am debating going online and shipping stuff. Back in the day I used to flip bitcoin using Zelle before it was called Zelle.

I got immensely paranoid about infosec though and got out the game ASAP

“The only way that I can see to deploy this much financial resource is by converting my Amazon winnings into space travel,” Jeff said this spring. “I am going to use my financial lottery winnings from Amazon to fund that.”

Haha, space travel! How romantic and novel !!

How about fixing Africa first?!

How about it is his money, and he gets to decide what he can do with, including burning it.

Yeah it is all his money.

Because he is 100'000x smarter and works 20x more than the median guy.

That's why he is 2'000'000x richer.

Are dividends in the US taxed and if so at what rate?

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