• GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    This is ironically a poor sales pitch, unless you believe that networking, marketing, and familial wealth should be what orders society.

    And I never said that 250k was all they had, and in fact being able to throw that much money at something is going to be less and less of a concern the more money you have, though I don’t think his family was “poor as hell” to start with. Unfortunately for this point, their finances at the time are not publicized that I can find.

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      It’s all part of how society works.

      Networking is what has grown my career. People know I deliver and that’s why I make what I make.

      I doubt his family was poor as hell but Mine was and could have come up with that. It’s not that much money in the grand scheme of things.

      I’m not fan of bezos and still surprised by his success. It’s a model that somehow he got to work and as a business person I don’t like him.

      But he didn’t steal profits. The company burns cash like crazy and has brief moments of profitability. Yet people keep buying into the Ponzi scheme.

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        1 year ago

        It’s all part of how society works.

        I said should, not does.

        But he didn’t steal profits.

        Back then, he used a considerable amount of money to run at a loss. Nowadays, he does steal a remarkable level of profits in the unpaid wages of the employees who keep winding up in the news for being forced to piss in bottles or drive to work in a hurricane.