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Tag Archives: Jeff Bezos
The Singular Pursuit of Comrade Bezos
By Malcolm Harris Source: Medium It was explicitly and deliberately a ratchet, designed to effect a one-way passage from scarcity to plenty by way of stepping up output each year, every year, year after year. Nothing else mattered: not profit, … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Labor, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged Amazon, Amazon Prime, big data, Cartel, Consumerism, Crony Capitalism, Dystopia, Economic Growth, Economics, Jeff Bezos, Monopoly, Planned Economy, Technocracy, technology, Whole Foods
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Freedom Rider: Oligarch Jeff Bezos
By Margaret Kimberley Source: Intrepid Report Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a net worth of $105 billion and is the richest man in the world. But he is not just the richest man at this moment in history. He is … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, censorship, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, media, news, propaganda, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged 1%, Amazon, Billionaires, censorship, elites, Fake News, financial crisis, Income Inequality, Jeff Bezos, Oligarch, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, propaganda, Russia, surveillance state, Wage Disparity, washington post, Wealth Gap
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Zucktown, USA
Facebook, Amazon, and Google are reviving the ill-fated “company towns” of the Gilded Age By Julianne Tveten Source: The Baffler EARLIER THIS YEAR IN SILICON VALLEY, a phalanx of six-figure-earning Facebook engineers confronted Mark Zuckerberg about subsidizing their extortionate rents. Meanwhile, the contract … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology, Work
Tagged Amazon Google, big data, Company Towns, Dystopia, Facebook, Housing, Jeff Bezos, Labor, Mark Zuckerberg, Oligarchy, panopticon, Plutocracy, Tech Industry, Technocracy
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Now Just Five Men Own Almost as Much Wealth as Half the World’s Population
By Paul Buchheit Source: CommonDreams Last year it was 8 men, then down to 6, and now almost 5. While Americans fixate on Trump, the super-rich are absconding with our wealth, and the plague of inequality continues to grow. An analysis of 2016 data found that the … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Recession, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, Big Agra, Bill Gates, Billionaires, Biotech, Charitable Foundations, economic inequality, Economics, Education, Facebook, financial crisis, Global Elites, income gap, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Meritocracy, Microsoft, NGOs, Oligarchy, Philanthropy, Plutocracy, Taxes, Warren Buffett, Wealth, Wealth Disparity, Wealth Gap
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Godzilla Amazon: The Amount of Power in Jeff Bezos’ Hands Should Frighten All Americans
Amazon very effectively uses technology and data to sidestep traditional restrictions on monopoly power. By Matt Stoller Source: AlterNet To understand the depth and breadth of Jeff Bezos’ ambitions for the company he built, type www.relentless.com into your browser. The domain Bezos … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, media, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Amazon, big data, Corporate Consolidation, Corporate Globalization, Dystopia, Economics, Jeff Bezos, Monopolists, Predatory Pricing, technology, The Washington Post, Whole Foods
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