mrzaius🚸Jan 20, 2023
Ex-Amazon employees on the almost impressively cynical way Amazon smile started:
Show threadJiva DeVoeJan 20, 2023

@mrzaius @uliwitness question: why is this bad? Some people I know would say this shows capitalism is compassionate. They’d argue that amazons motivation is irrelevant and the out come of the charity receiving anything is good.

So what’s bad here, other than just being judgy about why they’re doing it.

Show threadJoe ❌👑
@jiva @mrzaius @uliwitness Capitalism is almost never compassionate, but there are people in capitalist organizations who are. My take on this is that people saw an opportunity to take money from Google, give a cut of it to charity, have the company look good and still make more money. But they only got to do it because the result was that Amazon made more money.
Jan 21, 2023 at 1:15amWeb