A few years ago, Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options from companies like AWS and Azure.

Bucha Bull to me.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 hours ago

    Bezos is so out of touch it is stupid.

    Is he out of touch or has he just recognized that 50% of the economic activity is already from the top 10% of the population?

    I get the feeling the wealthy have just written off the bottom 90% of society and don’t actually give a flying fuck if anything works for us or not. He knows his core sales will go to people who do have fiber at their doorstep.

    Maybe we’re the ones out of touch thinking they plan on having a place for us in this world at all.

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      7 hours ago

      Even Ford, piece of utter feculence he was, understood that if you gave people money and time to spend it they’ll give it right back to you and everyone gets to come up together.

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        6 hours ago

        That was a PR stunt. Wages were being raised anyway, he just preempted what he knew was coming to make himself look good

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          Next you’re gonna tell me that Ford didn’t actually invent the weekend, but was pressured by unions.

          Or that tipped wages aren’t meant to let the employees get a higher wage than they could at a fixed wage, but instead only benefit the business.

          You and your crazy conspiracy theories. Now, if you’re done being wrong, I have a bridge to purchase.