Posted on 10/08/2020 6:28:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the world’s richest man, likes to depict himself as rising from difficult circumstances. His mother was still in high school when she became pregnant and his biological father left early on. Bezos as well as his former wife, Mackenzie, are members in good standing of what Charles Murray called the new upper class, in his book: Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010. The Bezos couple exhibited high intelligence, were successful at the best colleges, and rose rapidly in their careers. Members of the new upper class marry each other, live in nice houses, send their kids to private schools or good public schools, and are very much out of touch with the thinking of ordinary people.
None of the new upper-class billionaires are monsters. They come from middle to upper middle-class origins. They are all brilliant entrepreneurs. They mostly use their power to damage Trump politically because they don’t like Trump. That is not usually illegal, but it does affect the future of the country because they do have great power
Amazon is a great company. I’m a faithful customer and I published my book: Dumb Energy: A Critique of Wind and Solar Energy using Amazon’s Kindle system. I hope I’m not going to wake up tomorrow and find out that my book has disappeared.
Lately, Amazon has jumped on the global warming/ renewable energy/ sustainability bandwagon. They are spending millions on television ads to tell everyone how virtuous they are. Amazon’s 2019 annual report is heavy with climate change, carbon footprints and renewable energy. Amazon is building wind and solar farms. They have signed a “climate pledge.
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I stopped ordering from Amazon 2 years ago.
I wished someone would make a commercial pointing out that all those electric vehicles are actually powered by coal, oil, natural gas, hydro and nuclear. Just like with food, I don’t think a majority of the people have realized where things actually come from.
What it would take for the UK:
California has electric brownouts even now.
California has a history of screwing electric utility investors.
How is CA is going to get enough electricity to go CO2 free?
The rich like government mandates that guarantee high returns on investment.
Closing small business on Covid fears helped Amazon grow.
Amazon’s green commercials are a fraud. It’s all virtue signaling. The people they “interview” hedge on everything they say. There’s nothing green about Amazon’s operating philosophy.
Waste Management uses natural gas garbage trucks.
Amazon is far behind Waste Management.
It is stupid to tax me when Bezos has $200 billion he doesn’t need.
Delivery drivers will now delivery packages on foot.
Bezie Should Daily publish what his carbon footprint is
Betcha it’s much higher than mine
When power shortages become the norm-—WHO is going to get priority to charge their vehicles???
Surgeons/doctors/nurses or Amazon???
Amazon is switching to wind-powered vans to deliver their Chinese goods.
How is CA is going to get enough electricity to go CO2 free?
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Since people exhale CO2, the simple solution is for those concerned to cease exhaling.
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