Matt Kilcoyne, of the free market think-tank the Adam Smith Institute, disagrees.
"Quite frankly Bezos's greatest act of philanthropy is Amazon itself," he argues.
"Lower prices, more choice and competition have delivered billions for Bezos and billions worth for the hundreds of millions of customers he serves."
I don't see how you can claim to be a philanthropist when a massive portion of your workers are on welfare and/or homeless.
Amazon doesn't offer "choice" if it nearly destroys every other firms in any market it enters.
What choices do you have in digital books (ignoring that digital goods are a shitshow currently) other than Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or some Chinese site that most likely sells stolen books?
His attempts at "philanthropy" are a distraction towards the fact that the US welfare system is subsidizing his entire company model.
>Matt Kilcoyne, of the free market think-tank the Adam Smith Institute, disagrees.
>"Quite frankly Bezos's greatest act of philanthropy is Amazon itself," he argues.
>"Lower prices, more choice and competition have delivered billions for Bezos and billions worth for the hundreds of millions of customers he serves."
I don't see how you can claim to be a philanthropist when a massive portion of your workers are on welfare and/or homeless.
Amazon doesn't offer "choice" if it nearly destroys every other firms in any market it enters.
What choices do you have in digital books (ignoring that digital goods are a shitshow currently) other than Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or some Chinese site that most likely sells stolen books?
His attempts at "philanthropy" are a distraction towards the fact that the US welfare system is subsidizing his entire company model.
I don't see how you can claim to be a philanthropist when a massive portion of your workers are on welfare and/or homeless.
Amazon doesn't offer "choice" if it nearly destroys every other firms in any market it enters.
What choices do you have in digital books (ignoring that digital goods are a shitshow currently) other than Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or some Chinese site that most likely sells stolen books?
His attempts at "philanthropy" are a distraction towards the fact that the US welfare system is subsidizing his entire company model.