georgephillip
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Bezos and other parasites got rich because they bribed government to ignore anti-trust legislation. Billionaires are a threat to human survival but many wanna-be rich-bitches refuse to notice/care.Don't care?
Bezos got rich because people use his retail platform.
if you want to put him out of business you shouldn't be buying anything from Amazon but you do.
Our society is based on rampant consumerism that's what people want so of course there will be people who provide what people want.
It's the people in society that demand their cheap crap and you want to villainize the people who saw that and made money off of it.
"Oxfam found that the wealthiest 1% of the world population emit as much carbon pollution as the poorest two-thirds of the entire human population.
"'Only 0.4 percent of the world’s largest corporations are publicly committed to paying workers a living wage and support a living wage in their value chains', the organization wrote.
Global 1% own 43% of financial assets, 5 richest billionaires doubled wealth while 5 billion workers got poorer | MR Online"While corporate profits are soaring, the wages of nearly 800 million workers around the world have failed to keep up with inflation, resulting in a loss of $1.5 trillion for those workers over the last two years."
Btw: I buy less than $55 a year from Amazon's e-books, and Amazon's 2023 revenue for the 12 months ending September 30, 2023 was $554.028B, 10.32% increase year-over-year from 2022.