09.26.13
And eventually it will come for you
Allowed me to steal this comic.
The good thing is now everyone knows how the net works. Everything for those with the most, nothing for anyone else.
And you’ll have noticed how Google, social media, and iTunes solved the vexing twin problems of accelerating poverty and inequality during the last decade.
ABC News headline:
Jeff Bezos Says Washington Post Could Take a Page From Amazon.
Yes, the WaPost could adapt its journalists to the Amazon Mechanical Turk free-lance gig writing model, turning out 5-600 word pieces for 50 cents as human intelligence tasks.
Pay could be changed to average Amazon customer-centric fulfillment warehouse employees, a bit above minimum wage, sometimes implemented through third party local contracting. Expect to become a part-timer.
The Post could lobby the government to waive taxation for 20 years, like the deal Bezos enjoyed with state sales taxation, or barring that, move revenue collection to two profit-shifting/money-laundering fronts in Luxembourg.
The wisdom of Bezos, worth 23 billion dollars: “You have to lean into [the headwind] because complaining isn’t a strategy.”
Jeff Bezos’ world of Internet empowerment — from the archives.