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Cmon man.

There’s a thing called facts. Billionaires exploit the poor.

Why do they fight unionization and workers rights?

https://www.jwj.org/emboldened-billionaires-take-aim-at-new-...

The prison phone market is owned by billionaires: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inmate_telephone_system

Amazon now accepts SNAP/EBT payments after destroying small businesses:

https://www.paymentsdive.com/news/amazon-now-accepts-ebt-car...

Farmers are not allowed to reuse seeds from billionaire firms:

https://grain.org/en/article/5142-seed-laws-that-criminalise...

You are stretching the meaning of "poor" if you call non-unionized tech employees or US farmers "poor people". They aren't as rich as Bezos is, but "poor" is something very different.

Amazon warehouse workers are closer to the definition of "poor", but they will likely be replaced by robots fully anyway. Which I would say is good, because putting stuff into boxes for hours is arduous work that is suitable for machines, not humans.

Amazon destroying small businesses is somewhat similar to e-mail destroying telegraph, an almost inevitable development stemming from the technology. Even in Europe, where we don't have one big Amazon, there are obvious advantages to several big online retailers that operate on economies of scale. Customers prefer lower prices, and that includes poor customers.

Making money, itself, is not the problem. How and why one makes it determine the results of every endeavor.

Efficiencies do help us all, but they must not come at a harmful cost to the cogs in the wheels.

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