For a long time I have been puzzled by Jeff Bezos--the richest man in the world. What got him to becoming so wealthy was not really what interested me--he figured out the right formula for monetary success transforming online shopping--which had too many glitches to be of mainstream interest in the early 1990s. Amazon was as the techies like to say “the right solution” at the right moment and as proof it is now like TV part of the way we live. There was a cost to all this convenience but we muttered things like progress and the inevitable march of technology as we watched bookstores followed by main street stores, followed by entire malls disappear. We of course adjusted enjoying the new convenience of having packages arriving at our doorsteps so shortly after we clicked the submit button that killed even any sense of anticipation. I guess what puzzled me was his lack of any moral imagination and how like the previous president he normalized things that should never be normalized, so as we noted the growth of huge new warehouses we paid scant attention to the fact t
Well said. When someone has enough money to shoot a sports car into space simply because he can, it's time to re-distribute about 90% of his wealth.