• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    7 months ago

    The “necessary” thing of theirs is their money. If you took them out of the equation and kept the money and not worry about making more profits than last year every year, that necessity wouldn’t be there.

    Jeff Bezos did not invent eCommers. Elon Musk did not invent the rocket or the electric car. They are not scientists, they are investors.

    So yeah, I don’t have money to invest because, unlike Bezos, I didn’t work on Wall Street for years before funding an e-commerce site and unlike Elon Musk, I didn’t start a company with money from my father who owned an emerald mine.

    Money like that is only necessary in a flawed capitalist system. And the result is the exploitation of workers for low pay, shoddy products and, in the case of Tesla, shocking racism and sexual harassment.

    https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tesla-racism-sexual-harassment/

    I guess Elon was necessary to create a culture that fosters racism and sexual harassment though. If that’s what you mean.

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      7 months ago

      Jobs didn’t have money, neither did the founders of Google. And plenty of people were ritcher than Bezos and Musk yet they did not create Amazon or SpaceX.

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        7 months ago

        We haven’t been talking about them. Don’t change the subject. We are talking about Bezos and Musk. You claim their specific existences are necessary.

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          7 months ago

          Well, I don’t have the time nor do you pay me to teach you in detail how corporations works, so you can take the obvious examples of why money is not enough or remain ignorant.

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            7 months ago

            Again trying to change the subject about corporations and not specific people who had no actual function in creating or producing what the company that made them super rich does.

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              7 months ago

              Yes, because needing to know how corporations work to know what Bezos did to make it work is such a leap of logic.

              But you obviously are not willing to be convinced by reason, just to argue your point ad infinitum. After all, it was not me who brought up Musk and Bezos specifically anyway. It was not me changing the subject. I hope at least some other readers learnt something.

              Have a nice day.