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Rather off-topic, but I'm curious abut your view of Bezos charitably funding schools instead of improving his worker's conditions.

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very positive. he is building value for society by: - bringing cheaper great products to vast numbers of people - building AWS infrastructure that enables other people to build products cheaper and faster - creating huge number of jobs (that you might not like but lots of people in the world would like to have) - funding things he cares about

one of the most useful and beneficial people in the world.

When philanthropy funds the public good, society abdicates responsibility of defining “public good”, and leaves that to a handful of philanthropists. Hundreds of thousands of Amazon employees generated this wealth and billions of customers enabled it, yet one person gets to decide which services or causes are worthy of funding. This is called plutarchy.

thankfully the world does not support your view that it is the warehouse workers and customers, and not the entrepreneurs, who create wealth.

kind of surprised you are on YC/HN if that is what you believe...

While there is no denial for that, I fail to see how that is an insight into the the charity vs workers' conditions issue

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