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Comment by marricks

"Bezos achieved" it's never one person that changes the world, it's the conditions being ripe for it along with some bloke having enough seed money and brutal determination to make it happen.

- Internet was just starting to be a thing in the 90's so right time to capitalize on a new easier way to sell things

- Bezos got hundreds of thousands of dollars in money from his parents to start his book empire. It's not like he was a rags to riches story, they never are.

- Amazon warehouse workers suffer nearly 2x the numbers of bodily injuries[1] and it's almost like the company expects (and wants) to burn through these workers bodies because they have a ridiculously high turnover rate[2]

If he didn't do it someone else would have and for all we know they could have broken less bodies along the way.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/01/study-amazon-workers-injured...

[2] https://labor411.org/411-blog/warehouse-worker-turnover-rate...

parent marricks 4 years ago

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