Part Two: Jeff Bezos and the Birth of Amazon | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

[@MMuraseofSandvich]

Back when I was destroying my soul working for IT, I remember my boss saying, "I would never work at Amazon, it's toxic, but then, I guess that's how all the big tech firms are going to be doing it," referring also to _Microsoft and Oracle,_ who likely looked at what Amazon was doing and thought, "Hmm, we should also destroy our workforce to be competitive."

[@boogerparty]

I work in fast food. It's a stressful, soul-sucking job that I often see denigrated by people who have no idea of the reality of what it's like. I'd still rather do that for a living than work for Amazon, holy shit.

[@pennywaldrip3774]

How times have changed... When Domino's guaranteed 30-minute delivery caused car accidents, etc., they (Domino's) felt responsible and dropped the guarantee - for the safety of human lives.

[@darwinism8181]

For the liability that promoting people to be unsafe exposed them to, let's be real here. Big companies aren't benevolent, they never have been. If they stop doing something it's because the risks have come to outweigh rewards. It's just that the extremely banal evil that Amazon does isn't considered as heinous as some other kinds of evil that might cause other companies to go, "Y'know, maybe let's don't because this exposes us to undue risk."

[@magic8ball237]

@@darwinism8181 What you said is reductive: There is a growing corporate culture of caring less and less about these things. People who lead corporations are not omnipotent, they don't choose the option that would truly maximize their profits, even though this is what they want while making these decisions. Instead, their decisions are rather heavily effected by the culture around them. For example, in the past, Domino's would say "Oh we should appear to care about driver's safety" because of the perceived risk of "If you seem to not care about human life, people don't buy your products". The latter sentence is a product of culture, it is not actually an objective observation. Currently the attitude is more like "Even if you seem to not care about human life, people will still buy your stuff because they are practically forced to eat the slob we serve them". This shift in the culture is truly guided by the desire to milk every cent possible from everyone and everything, i.e. it is a result of profit maximization, but there really IS a shift.

[@richardarriaga6271]

32:19. This is so prescient given how Musk took over Twitter.

[@JesseMaurais]

Your thumbnail says pt 1 but the title says pt 2.

[@pssurvivor]

where's part 1?

[@mats8375]

I thought I had Alzheimer's but it seems it isn't me who have something missing.

[@kombatwombat6579]

It was in your heart all this time.

[@TheDarthbinky]

Maybe it's like L Ron Hubbard's book and if we hear it, it'll cause us to commit suicide?

[@justcommenting4981]

On Amazon Prime.

[@MMuraseofSandvich]

😅 They just posted it a few hours ago.

[@edbop]

I have to ask, why are you buying all this stuff on amazon? why are you buying all this stuff? we have to, as much as we are able, be the world we want the world to be.

[@gurusmurf5921]

I haven't bought anything from Amazon since that union busting stunt, something like 3 years now I think. It has been effortless. I never once ordered 2 day shipping when I was still buying from them. If it's really the end of the world to wait a couple extra days then you need to plan your life better. I, also, don't understand people who act like they don't have a choice. If someone is in a unique situation then sure, but to the overwhelming majority of people out there you absolutely do have a choice. It's the internet, you have hundreds of choices. It's very easy to not shop at Amazon.

[@Velkhana22]

Relentless is gonna get a weird uptick in traffic after this

[@hapsate]

In the early 2000's as a college student I made a bit of money selling used books on amazon

[@RaunienTheFirst]

Bezos setting the stage for Musk in "people getting mad about twitter"

[@gracelloyd3758]

Amazon sounds like academia lmao

[@gracelloyd3758]

Actually I would appreciate if my work was measured. I would feel appreciated

[@_NewtonMeter]

Listening to part 1 on spotify and ): bezos' parents' age difference is the same as my parents 😅 always thought it was a lil problematic. But mine dated and were in the same circles for a few years prior to mother becoming pregnant.

[@LancasterAJ]

CEO, Entrepreneur, born in 1964. Boom! Saved you 46 minutes.

[@p0xus]

I have to say... the number of times the guest says "Ya know what I mean?" is pretty annoying. Know what I mean?