Careful with your "you guys". I'm a leftist, and I advocate for health care as a human right.
In the USA, labor rights were earned by literally committing armed rebellion against corporate "company towns" [0], as in the West Virginia coal wars [1]. Without this, the USA would not have weekends or eight-hour workdays.
Even if Amazon did not exist, Facebook would still need a lot of computers and Google would still have a lot of spare compute, so public clouds might still happen. And if they didn't, well, maybe that's not a bad thing! It's not clear that public clouds are good.
The Washington Post is older than Bezos; it turns 143 this year [2]. Without Bezos, perhaps the paper would be dead right now, but perhaps it would be thriving, since the paywall on their online content was only built after Bezos took over.
I find your view "not even wrong" [4]; your history of the issue is so shallow that I can't even critique it without first establishing the historical context.
Why don’t you have free health care, free education and that stuff? Are you honestly citing a 100 year old riot as a proof the American people want it? Obviously they 1) don’t or 2) want it but can’t have it.
I mean, at least we have established that it’s not Amazon but “the system and everybody else” is the problem.
In the USA, labor rights were earned by literally committing armed rebellion against corporate "company towns" [0], as in the West Virginia coal wars [1]. Without this, the USA would not have weekends or eight-hour workdays.
Even if Amazon did not exist, Facebook would still need a lot of computers and Google would still have a lot of spare compute, so public clouds might still happen. And if they didn't, well, maybe that's not a bad thing! It's not clear that public clouds are good.
The Washington Post is older than Bezos; it turns 143 this year [2]. Without Bezos, perhaps the paper would be dead right now, but perhaps it would be thriving, since the paywall on their online content was only built after Bezos took over.
I find your view "not even wrong" [4]; your history of the issue is so shallow that I can't even critique it without first establishing the historical context.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_coal_wars
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong