Do they really want me to be trapped? 😮 might go to El Salvador, but trapped?
I’m brown with a thick beard, so I’m used to being “naturally suspicious and prone to explosion” whenever I am within a 5 km distance of an airport. Yet US airports would scare the shit out of me
That might be a genuine option if not for widespread antitrust abuses by what is essentially monopolies… your answer to that is “just create more businesses”?
There’s plenty of Cloud companies in the works currently; I already applied for a position at Evroc. But it’s not all that Amazon does.
Run corporations by ourselves? Gladly! When do the CEOs step down?
Definitely Italian names and groups being mentioned in the article. Might be some Americans and others inbetween; it’s a struggle mirrored around the world. Can just be a reference to the fact that Bezos and Amazon are known tax evaders - including for their EU business. And yes, I’d imagine that people aren’t happy about being priced out of their own communities - hence the widespread anti-tourism protests in general
What is it you think Bezos does and has done “for Amazon” that makes him so important? The main thing he was good at was knowing how to rig the system. If he died tomorrow you’ll see that Amazon will do just as fine, possibly even better. He’s not even the CEO anymore. People can’t just “create structures” when all the world’s resources are owned by regimes and big corporations. If I create my own Amazon-equivalent they’re gonna destroy me before I ever make it big.
The Old City is being heavily depopulated, yes. Locals can hardly even live their anymore. So why wouldn’t thry be angry?
What structures are people supposed to create exactly?
I never claimed it was the entire problem and that it solve all of humanity’s issues, but the system that they’ve helped create and now benefit from is what’s destroying both the world and humanity. Eating just a few of them wouldn’t change that but it’d be a start. That’s why the fact that a few hundreds of brave Venetians won’t let him do whatever he wants in their home is awesome. Entitled motherfuckers coming in their private planes and yachts acting like they own a city that’s literally sinking and where locals can hardly make a living.
So you do recognise that. Then why are you spending so much energy defending Bezos and people like him?
Sure, regular people should rise up and retake power. Take back resources from the billionaires. Idk who “we” are - but I don’t live in USA, and if I did I wouldn’t be living in a democracy. There are plenty of plans for how to save the planet and they all include stopping billionaires and fundamentally changing the system. Think Bezos will bankroll it if we ask him nicely?
Look up “criticism of Amazon” or anything like that and you’ll see he isn’t just a good guy who happened to make a big benevolent corporation. From antitrust practices, to design theft, especially from POC, counterfeit products, special tax deals designed to contribute as little as possible, a significantly negative effect on the environment and more. Add to that Bezos’ personal relationships with business and government leaders that are actively trying to keep people poor, including Trump. It’s not the good-guy corporation you think it is.
And yes, when you’re worth 220 billion dollars and you do nothing positive with it whatsoever, you’re problematic, bordering on evil. It’s greed. If Bezos gave a flying shit about humanity, imagine what kind of change he could actually do.
And that shows you don’t understand the power of “just owning shares”. It’s a whole fucking shit load better than having income or money. He can take whatever loan he wants with his stocks as collateral. He skips out completely on doing anything helpful to society whatsoever. People are struggling because of this system, yes, and people like Bezos are happily living grand off of it
This is my main issue with it too. I can retire at 72 or later… in more than 40 years. I’d expect to be replaced long before this, so what’s the point?
Far from perfect, and with rising inequality, but Denmark has generally been relatively decent when it comes to taxing the rich and high-income individuals.
As born in the 90s I’m expected to retire at the earliest by 72. I don’t understand this at all though - I’m expecting a reduced need for labourers as many things become increasingly automatised anyway, so it’s an entirely wrong focus in the first place.
Absolutely not. As a Dane, our politicians and companies are just as capitalist and opportunist as elsewhere. Our corrupt government has been a major supporter of Israel, including in the weapons trade, and we, for example, just invited the US military to freely use our military bases for the next 10 years. I’m happy to see if popular pressure works.
I love seeing that various forms of protest and pressure actually works! Unfortunately, companies tend to go where they think the capital is, so it’s for the common people to bring about change and to pressure them in the right direction (unfortunately).
I get that it’s a frustrating accusation, but as a man I recognise it as generally true, even if I don’t resonate with it. Women rarely commit mass shootings, rapes, stabbings, forced drugging, muggings. The people causing trouble in my neighbourhood are exclusive male teenagers and the only genuine threat to me ever is by other men. And no, it’s of course not an inherent feature in male genetics, nor is it anything close to “all men”, but it’s a cultural issue based on how we’re raised and it should be fair game to discuss it - although with a better tone than what’s normally applied.
I know what you mean, but Russia wanting its primary Middle Eastern ally destroyed just to hope oil prices will hike is a bit out there.
I’m not even talking about you, am I? This idea is literally everywhere I look by Westerners who can’t find their own assholes. If calling these twisted points of view out is a problem for you then deal with that.
That they haven’t done anything to you is irrelevant. Israel hasn’t either. In fact no one has, since America is the global state supreme.
My parents are refugees from Iran. They’ve done us plenty. And now I see Westerners talking like Iran is the saviour of the Middle East and that the regime is a poor victim of Western imperialism. Israel is a terror state but so is Iran. No innocent people should ever be bombed, and every civilian is a victim of greedy old men getting young men murdered for resources or pride - but it does piss me off to continuously see people who don’t understand the region whatsoever form strong opinions on it based on Tiktok and Gaza.
Is there a way to visit for a couple of days (Not for Bezos’ wedding lmao) wirhout being a nuisance and supporting local business/people as much as possible or is it better to just stay away? We dream of flying there, seeing the cities and then going to the Dolomites.
How dare they inconvenience Lord Bezos though? Have they never used Amazon or dreamt about his rocket, huh? They should be grateful and hand over the city to him
You must understand this is the zeitgeist. The entirety of the Middle East are victims, including mullahs, Taliban, autocrats and sheikhs. Crazy how people can’t at least view it from two sides or in grey tones.
I won’t disagree that the Western-led world order has created instability in the region and worldview, but I sincerely doubt that an Islamic world order would be in any way better. Most are just jealous that they don’t get to do the exploitation
Definitely seen south Italians darker than me 😂 but coupled with “exotic looks” and the ability to actually tan it’s definitely plenty to produce the “terrorist look” and stand out in Scandinavia