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Yes, but somehow he has started an empire that ships thousands of packages every day and allows people to easily shop online. He might not be bright, but he did something right. Something that others didn't want to take the leap to do.


He did do something right. Mail order was always more expensive than shops, but Amazon wasn't ...

Why not ?

Sales Tax Evasion: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2017/03/27/tax...

That is the only reason Amazon was ever price competitive. Without that, it wouldn't have grown. That's his great accomplishment.

Not just abusing workers, not just treating low paid employees like dirt, constantly firing the most vulnerable just to keep them down, and not just hiding from criticism on those actions [1], but also abusing the country as a whole, through massive scale tax evasion.

Jeff Bezos truly has something to be proud of !

[1] http://gothamist.com/2015/08/15/life_inside_the_nightmare_am...


The raising kids part was interesting and took me a bit off guard, but I do like his view on regrets. Look for to 80 years old and think what you can do to minimize your regrets!


I thought that was pretty funny lol! They probably weren't expecting all that traffic from hacker news


Indeed, very funny :)


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