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February 14, 2022: The time I met Jeff Bezos: reflecting on how success changed Amazon & Bezos
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• How Hard Would It Be to Hit Jeff Bezos’s Superyacht With a Rotten Egg? (by Clio Chang, Curbed, Feb 8, 2022): “A group of residents in Rotterdam has put out a call to throw rotten eggs at Jeff Bezos’s superyacht when it passes through the city’s river in June. The event, succinctly titled ‘Throwing eggs at superyacht Jeff Bezos,’ is a response to reports that the city is considering a plan to dismantle the historic Koningshaven Bridge to allow Bezos’s $500 million, and apparently very tall, new superyacht to take to the sea.”
• MacKenzie Scott (Wikipedia entry): “As of November 2021, she has a net worth of US$62.2 billion, owing to a 4% stake in Amazon. ... Scott made US$5.8 billion in charitable gifts in 2020, one of the largest annual distributions by a private individual to working charities. She donated a further $2.7 billion in 2021.”
Reposting from last week’s show...
• Amazon Breaks Record for One-Day Gain in Market Cap (WSJ, Feb 5, 2022): "Shares surged 14% Friday, their biggest one-day jump in almost seven years. The added $191 billion to Amazon’s market value, eclipsing the record Apple set just last week when it added $181 billion after posting quarterly results that shattered previous records."
• Lawmakers Press Amazon on Sales of Chemical Used in Suicides (NYT, Feb 4, 2022). As Vice's Maxwell Strachan put it:
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Listener comments!
Have to go get the Techgin poured, but I am very ready for some Techtonic.
Hey, ultradamno, David, Bas!
Hiya Handy!
Avoid all advertising!! 2,300 year old advice
&Robbie B @6:09 Epictetus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alcohol is a strong drug
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/shows/the-jerusalem-report/F8dDNqPaUL
For one thing, ever since they stopped shouting abroad that one of their major goals was the elimination of governments' abilities to regulate any aspect of business, now they just whisper it behind hands held coyly in front of their faces.
I’ve rarely purchased from Amazon.
But damn I got some neat free stuff as they very nicely tied in my rewards buck from various credit cards I normally wouldn’t be bothered to even think about.
One can’t complain about that level of monetary ease of use.
The Bezos Beast.
Quite devious in it’s resourcefulness
I got Mubi, Kanopy, CuriosityStream, Shudder, and Criterion for fillums, BandCamp, Bleep and (meh) iTunes to buy music and bookshop.org for any new books. I'm happy out.
My thoughts while
I’m dinking watching the game, ALEXA read my mind Alexa
Drinking is slang for using the drug alcohol!
It is remarkable how promoted Alcohol is in Pro sports, considering how strong a drug alcohol is.
Can they direct to local record stores? Or the library of congress? Or something
Just smacks of antilabor practices, but I can't find anything recent on them. There's an article out there from 2006 that makes it sound like they do indeed want to eliminate all employees but had yet to figure out how.
How many of us have to live w his regrets
Come and join the party every🌈 day! @WFMU! Peace&Love
I never wanted to know
was that lady cumming from eating that nummy slop
Perfect
Money is the root of all dickheads I’ve known.
Mark is telling the truth!
A more apt comparison to Nazism is having an authority tell you white is black and expecting you to believe it!
Any suggestion to violence is absurd
Etc etc
The future is CRADLE TO CRADLE! Designing products with future lifecycles in mind….
Jeff knows that any woman that shows him the least interest is only interested in the financial gain he represents
All pollution industries into space.
Hence the Elon Musk satellite custerfrack
Near earth orbit precursor of the pacific plastic garbage gyre
Minimize impulsive Amazon purchases
Just make purchases totaling $29 min free shipping qualifier. Easy as pi
I am thinking they will now move the yacht out and put the masts on later???
Ran to the fridge and pulled out an egg
www.abebooks.com...
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make things
Relax chronic
Come to Know Paul through his own mind, pen and music…
The Greatest Male singer in recorded history!
I know it’s your private knitting circle mostly for the chronics that hate anyone who they can’t identify and immediately label troll.
Anonymous ain’t gonna hurt you.
Ever actúa listen to what mark is saying?
I know this much: we can't solve it through more capitalism.
It was rebuilt before.
It can be modified and made whole.
He’s offered to pay.
Personally we need to act locally and fix the problems here first prior to putting the oligarchs in their place.
I recommend guillotines
Guillotines.
Thanks Mark.
We are all aboard the same train! To the East… where the 4 winds blow…
Yeah! Good Job Mackenzie Scott!
Thanks Mark! Do give Jeff a heads-up on the coming WFMU Marathon! :)