- every billionaire is a meddling micromanager who is obsessed with getting overhead costs to zero in order to turn a profit, even if that profit is measured in spare change, because money doesn’t matter to any of them, something bezos himself has acknowledged
- If the plan was just to put WaPo to work for Bezos's other business interests, I'm pretty sure they could have done that in a less shambolic fashion. So while Bezos's attempts to cozy up to the regime are for sure part of the problem, don't discount his hubris, myopia, and petulance.
- we can’t save democracy unless we also get rid of these billionaires. One doesn’t even need to be a socialist to recognize this. We’ve been warned about how destabilizing excess wealth is to society since antiquity
