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It's easy to be 1000% dedicated to your job when you make over $9,000,000 an hour. But he wants the same dedication from people he pays $6.

He's also vicious about crushing unions and is known for giving employees so little breaks they have to piss in bottles.

Fuck Bezos. The US has a real problem with wealth worship. People lap up every drop that comes out of this asshole just because he's a million times richer than everyone else. So they think he's a million times smarter.

Jeff Bezos is a rich asshole and treats his employees like toilet paper. It's laughable that anyone would take life advice from this clown

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> he's a million times richer than everyone else. So they think he's a million times smarter.

The more I talk to people I disagree with and spend time outside of the US, the more I come to believe that this mental distortion is very near to a root cause for so much misery and suffering, particularly in the US. The way we worship the rich and let them get away with distorting our politics and laws to suit them to the detriment to everyone else is unconscionable, yet I see people supporting it, or at least not outraged by it, simply because they believe that wealth is perfectly correlated with how much you deserve to have your way. It's bizarre.

Jeff is in fact is an exceptionally intelligent man. He’s easily at least three sigma above the mean. Anyone that’s worked with him can tell you that.

You can find a lot of people in academia just as smart with 2 Twitter followers.

My point is, everyone listens to Jeff and the other billionaires because they're rich. That's literally the only reason. They're modern day kings as rich as the robber barons of old.

>"Jeff is in fact is an exceptionally intelligent man"

Equally true for Generals in charge of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht.

Smart people can do no wrong?

Good example I guess. German rocket technology was a decade past anyone else. The space race and moon landing wouldn't have been possible without the Nazis. But I don't think anyone is stupid enough to argue it was a worthwhile trade off

> It's easy to be 1000% dedicated to your job when you make over $9,000,000 an hour.

i think i would find it difficult after about three days

At which point I'd buy a few acres in Montana, get a Starlink subscription, and happily work on my hobbies for the rest of my life.

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