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by p2t2p 3084 days ago
I fail to see how offer can be too good to refuse. I don’t use google services, because it’s evil. Period. No matter what’s the offer.

And could you elaborate on hidden cost to others? All I see right now is thousands if not millions workplaces created thanks to Amazon, hundreds businesses having a relatively cheap marketplace to sell their goods, which in turn creates workplaces, millions of kids in their third world countries having their chance to leave the farm and go and try to build a skill, billion of people went out of poverty in last 30 years, all of it just because Bezos and others like him managed to make that offer “too good to refuse”.

This line with Bezos didn’t do all of the job himself is really a slippery slope, blink of an eye and you’re sending kulaks to Siberia with their families. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/

I also fail to see why it’s Bezos’s problem that nobody wants to hire those people for bigger salaries. At least he’s giving them something. Would they be better off without Amazon existence? Or are they better off because it’s existence?