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What did I just read? An ex-Amazon employee 'lashing out' by saying that regulators should break up Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, then leave Amazon alone because they will probably 'do the right thing' by spinning-off AWS? That Big Tech shouldn't exist, however, Jeff Bezos is a rounding error? It really sounds like he got paid to write this.

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What you just read is an ex-Amazon employee who quite under protest over a principle and has since been hounded by reporters all trying to get him to say that Amazon or Jeff Bezos are the problem (and printing that even if he won't say it) when he actually believes that the entire system is the problem and that Amazon and Jeff Bezos are just symptoms. This essay was written in response to yet another reporter characterizing him as an "Amazon critic".

He is an Amazon critic. He left the company due to issues with the company but also wants everyone to know that this is not an issue solely with Amazon. To be upset that you are called a critic of a company you criticized is strange. The reporters were writing a story on his criticism of Amazon - not on his views of society. And they included his statement that it is the entire industry to be clear of his opinion. I liked his essay and agree with it as an additional statement of clarifying in his own words, but I do not think the reporters have done anything wrong here.

This whole situation seems off. I have quit and been fired in my tech career when taking a strong moral stance against my employers behaviors. To me; this piece was written in an attempt to get his job back. I'd put him closer to the realm of a film critic who only gave the movie one thumb up.

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