*Piano music*
As I found myself coming to terms with my single status as I'm approaching my 30s
I've realized they need to start dating again
But with a global pandemic and a cultural revolution taking place at the same time
I decided to venture out into the worldwide web to find a suitable match
Dating as a socialite comes with its own struggles unless you enjoy public humiliation,
You can't just post your face all over
Tinder and wait for every incel living in his mom's basement to swipe left or right on you
So in case any other socialites or socialite wannabes reading this are looking for a dating tutorial, here it is.
Don't waste your time chasing after modelizers. First off,
You're not a model and even if you were, they will always dump you two months later.
Ignore the bohemian artists sliding into your DMs- they usually claim to be musicians,
actors, or painters
But their full-time job is serving coffee and they will also dump you two months later
the secret to a successful
relationship is finding someone uglier, shorter, older, and richer than you.
As I searched online on the Fortune 500 list for the single, short, old, and ugly man of my dreams,
There he was, looking like a sleep paralysis nightmare
56 years old 5 foot 7 with a total net worth of a hundred and fifty three point six billion dollars.
And American, so he spoke the same language
His name? Jeff Bezos.
But before engaging into flirting with him online until he sent over his limousine to take me to the airport to join him on a
trip to Paris in a private jet for a first date, I first needed to learn everything about him
Would we live happily ever after together or would I end up as a human sacrifice for his Illuminati cult?
With rich men it can go either way. I've lost many of my friends like this. As I began stalking him online
I quickly discovered that he cheated on his now ex-wife
I'd call that a bit of a red flag, but let him who is without sin cast the first stone
He's also a big fan of Thomas Edison
Which is the guy that did not invent the light bulb which is interesting and also confusing
I also noticed he has a demonic laughter and I'm not sure if I find it endearing or proof
He owns lampshades may out of human skin
He's also the founder, CEO, and president of Amazon
Lenin said show me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are
But I've always believed you can tell a lot more about a man's character through how he makes his fortune than through his friendships
So I started investigating
Amazon and the other companies he's purchased and
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I always thought Amazon was a marketplace for low quality junk made in China that you could buy cheaper on eBay anyways
So I couldn't help but wonder how did this company become this successful?
It turns out Jeff used aggressive business strategies to monopolize the market
He sold products under market value and didn't make a profit for decades just to choke out every other
competition and annihilate small businesses so that Amazon was the only one left.
After monopolizing the market he would force the businesses selling their products on Amazon to give up
a 30% cut of their sales. If they didn't comply, he would use aggressive
strategies to hide their products and would suggest their competitors to customers.
As Amazon drove out the competition in many areas
they now also have a monopoly on jobs
But I couldn't help but wonder if they treat their workers fairly then that wouldn't be such a bad thing, right?
An Amazon representative claimed that they will not compromise employee safety
But Amazon's actions show the exact opposite: worker unions aren't allowed to form, in order to prevent workers from defending their rights
Workers have reportedly suffered from heat stress during the job, other reports showed they were not allowed bathroom breaks and had to wear diapers
Workers are also attached to a tracking device that monitors their movements, and recently they were forced to work during the coronavirus outbreak
Therefore having their lives severely endangered and all that
So people can receive bacon bandages and a Handitaur delivered to them in 24 hours?
I was curious to find out other than Amazon, what else did Jeff own? From the Washington Post, Twitch, Whole Foods, Twitter,
investments in Airbnb, Uber, and Google, all the way to a space company called Blue Origin, and a speaker named
Alexa that is essentially a listening device that Amazon uses to collect more user data in order to sell more products.
I was in shock. This wasn't the man of my dreams.
This was Napoleon complex on steroids. A tiny, ugly, little hoarder of money that only cared about spending his wealth,
capitalizing space, and spending a
microscopic fraction of it on helping people or protecting the environment. And that was probably more for tax evasion than genuine care.
As I tried to visualize the magnitude of his wealth, I found this interesting Tik Tok.
"In my last video I counted 10,000 grains of rice where each grain of rice was a hundred thousand dollars
and that was to show you the scale of a billion dollars.
Well, a lot of you guys asked me well, how much does Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos have in terms of rice?
Okay, so the moment you've been waiting for: 100k, 1 million ,1 billion. Jeff Bezos does 122 of these or
58 pounds of rice if each grain of rice was 100k
Like look how big this is guys. I'm gonna show you the scale here. I'm gonna put a keyboard in just for fun
Look how deep that goes
That's insane.
This is Jeff Bezos's new house. That's 145 million dollars in LA and then- oh my god *laughs*
So much money, so much power, wasted on a man like this. I was furious. A fire grew inside of me.
I didn't want to date him,
I wanted to take him down, but I couldn't help but wonder:
how does one take down the richest man in the world? The first thought I had was boycotting him.
It won't take away the fortune he's desperately clinging on to, but it could prevent him from becoming the first trillionaire.
That being said, I'm someone who would rather be turned into bacon bandages than dress in Amazon fashion
so it's easy for me to do, but even if everyone listening to this decides to boycott every company Jeff owns or has
invested in it would still not put the slightest dent in his fortune
Boycotting, even when it works ,won't stop the next Bezos from rising to godlike levels of wealth
Boycotting can sometimes push companies to treat workers better or be more environmentally friendly
But in most cases it only pushes companies into spending millions on ad campaigns that offer the illusion of improvement
I've come to understand that it's not Bezos that is the problem but the systems in place that allow people like Bezos to succeed
As long as labor exploitation is rewarded, and as long as environmental destruction is more affordable,
That's how businesses will operate. As long as small businesses are forced to compete against titans,
titans will always win, and small businesses will keep failing, and becoming fewer and fewer as monopolies take over
Monopolies allow total control of the market, its prices, even the labor force, and it often leads to
overwhelming political influence and products of lower quality
So here are a few solutions that I think might work better:
Higher taxes for corporations and the rich.
Amazon paid only a 1.2% tax last year.
That's absurdly low compared to the 14% average Americans pay.
Taxes should get exponentially higher as wealth increases, and used to fund education,
health, and other public services that help improve the quality of people's lives, not voting the rich into power
They have a vested interest in protecting their wealth and increasing the wealth of their investors. If they are part of the top 1%,
why would they ever care about us in the lower 99?
Getting corporate money out of politics.
Politicians should not be able to be bought out by corporations.
Their job is to serve the people, not the highest bidder of their electoral campaign
Increasing the minimum wage and increasing taxes and corporations that outsource the manufacturing of their products to countries with cheaper labor
companies should not be financially rewarded for creating more unemployment and
exploiting the cheap labor of corrupted countries with no labor protection laws.
Another way of through building a strong labor movement and making banning labor unions illegal
So giving workers the power to defend their own rights. Another way to prevent more Bezoses from popping up is through wealth redistribution
through land reform, the transfers ownership of land in a Robin Hood style
of taking from those that have more than they need and giving it to those that have none. Now, I know what you're thinking here:
I could help but wonder it myself:
How is it ethical to take land from someone? They earned it, it belongs to them! It's theft!
But I've come to realize that's not the case. The wealthy have hoarded
disproportional amounts of land that has been passed on from generation to generation
The wealth generated from renting that land out is used to purchase even more land. In the UK less than
1% of its population owns 50% of the land. This hoarding of land
leads to the rise of land and property prices to the point where normal people can no longer afford it
Housing should be a human right, not a privilege
Besides, if somebody owns 30 properties then they have approximately 29 more properties than they really need.
While in the US alone,
there are more than half a million homeless people.
If we don't start becoming involved politically through voting and demanding change,
Jeff Bezos will soon become the first trillionaire. With that much wealth,
he will have a disproportionate amount of power over all of us, and judging by how he's operated his business so far,
he doesn't seem like he will show us any mercy.
The most concerning part about this is his space program. With private companies gaining more and more access to space,
it's yet uncertain the impact that will have on the future and what amount of power and opportunities that will give him access to?
Some say private space companies like Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin and Elon Musk's
SpaceX are trying to colonize space in the event of a catastrophe here on earth taking place,
but that's not what I think. The climate crisis is a catastrophe happening right now and even though in
2019 Jeff donated ten billion dollars to himself: to the Bezos Earth Fund. That money doesn't even begin to cover the
environmental damage caused by his own business
Instead of saving the planet. He's been personally heavily responsible for damaging
He's been investing 1 billion dollars every year since the year 2000 into Blue Origin.
But why? I believe he wants full control over humanity's next frontier
He wants to mine and extract resources from space using labor
that won't be subjected to the labor protection laws of any country- space is just more opportunities to make and hoard even more money
What fascinated me is his claim that he's a big fan of Star Trek, and it even inspired the creation of Alexa
Perhaps he genuinely was impressed by the technology used on the show
But what completely went over his head is that Star Trek is also a Communist utopia. Other noteworthy information
I dug up about him is that he was friends with Harvey Weinstein and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,
and also Jeffrey Epstein's Madame- Ghislaine Maxwell was a guest at a retreat hosted by Jeff Bezos in
2018 and if it's true that you can tell a lot about someone by looking at their friendships
I'd say this alone shows a lot about who Jeff Bezos really is
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