Jeff Bezos explains to @AOC how billionaires are created: providing at least a billion dollars in value to society -- the opposite of exploitation.
Bezos: "Let me give you a simple example. Let’s say you start a burger joint, and you have 10 employees, and you make a little bit of money.”
SORKIN: “Right.”
Bezos: “Until you have — this is — this just one — one outlet. And by the way, these are the most delicious burgers in the world. People love your burgers, Andrew. And so then, you open a second outlet —”
SORKIN: “Right.”
Bezos: “— and now you’re making a little bit more money, and you have 20 employees. Nd you open a third outlet. By the time you’ve opened a thousand outlets, you are a billionaire.”
SORKIN: “Right.”
Bezos: “And by the way, this is a real life story, it happens all the time, it’s In-N-Out Burger, it’s Raising Cane’s Chicken. At what point did that money all of a sudden become unethical, or it didn’t? There was one outlet, and then there were two, and then there were three. What you’re doing — the way — the way you make a billion dollars, or a hundred million dollars, or 10 million dollars, or anything, is you create a service that people love. And if millions of people choose your service, you’re going to end up with a billion dollars.”
SORKIN: “Right.”
Bezos: “And you can, you know, just try it with a chicken franchise.”
SORKIN: “Do you think though —”
Bezos: “But your chicken has to be good.”
It’s really funny reading all these fawning posts from dems about Walz as if we didn’t just watch him fail miserably as a VP candidate while his shithole state was looted by literal retarded Somali scammers for years under his watch. Yeah, great job Timbo lmfao.
The American people have lost trust in the government, the media, and the central bank.
They have voted for radical changes in political leadership, shifted their eyeballs to new media voices, and converted their dollars into a new financial system.
We are transitioning from a low-trust society into a decentralized, resilient society that allows anyone to verify facts and information.
Technology has taken a sledgehammer to legacy institutions.
The sooner you realize the old world is being abandoned, the sooner you can start adopting the new one.
The Miami Heat have traded Haywood Highsmith and a 2032 second-round pick to the Brooklyn Nets for a protected 2026 second-round pick, sources tell ESPN.
The fact that an average American family can’t afford a decent home in this country is a complete failure on the last few decades of leadership.
Just insane how badly we screwed that up.