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by campground 1293 days ago
But all of that labour could have gone into building actually productive assets or infrastructure that meet some of the many real needs that exist in the world. This is a terrible allocation of resources, barely better than him paying them to go into the desert and dig a giant hole and then fill it in again.

I don't the Jeff Bezos personally is the problem, but he and his peers are symptoms of an economic system with very messed up incentives.