I've always wondered what it's like. Wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and say to myself, "I personally have enough money to end world hunger for three years." And then not do it. Instead, just go off to work, a little spring in my step, knowing the US government would foot the bill for food stamps for my employees instead. While 600,000 children starve to death worldwide in the new year. I wonder how that would feel? Would I be conflicted about it?

Welcome to Feudalism 2.0 - your new overlords are no longer the Duke of Aquitaine, Lorraine or Normandy but Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple.

this article is highly misleading and is clearly shoehorning particular statistics in to paint a rather manipulative and damning portrait of a greedy jeff bezos and the soulless company he's running. that's okay, i assume anyone here would have the mental wherewithal to discern this sort of trickery and not allow such drivel to influence their opinions too much.

the reality is that the few people in the first world (let's face it, if you're reading hackernews, you're probably in the first world) aren't benefiting directly from amazon in someway, whether it be directly or indirectly.

it's frustrating to see this generalized hatred towards anyone who surpasses a certain level of success, as if what he's doing to make the world a better place isn't quite enough and he should be off in africa spoonfeeding starving children. it's such a cartoonish and unrealistic notion that anyone with that amount of money would be able to solve the most complex issues that we face as a species simply because he has a high net worth.

i'd take facebook, google and amazon as my technocratic overlords over just facebook and google any year of the millenium.

They will get more once they figure out which city they can use to extort seattle. Then more again when they use Seattle to extort tax breaks from their new HQ.