Re:Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
by megablast on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @06:29PM
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It’s obvious. Too much power under one non elected person with very few checks. It’s similar to a dictator of a small country, with global scope.
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All people only have 24 hours a day even if they're rich. It's easy to combat them if you care more than they do; all these huge tech companies have surprisingly little political power and constantly lose local battles to activist groups and retired homeowners.
Bezos can hire people to do things for him, but clearly this has limits, he isn't sending hitmen after Amazon critics even if he could pay them $1 billion Amazon shares each.
That’s not obvious. They don’t have diplomatic immunity, issue passports or visas, have the power to pass laws, do not have the power to detain, arrest, prosecute, convict, imprison or kill, and they have no military power.
In what way are they like dictatorships by engaging in commercial activities and being worth a large sum of money based on what their shares are bought and sold at?