What does a megabillionaire with a history of silencing critics and retaliating against workers know about democracy?
Tag: Jeff Bezos
The Billionaire Space Race Reflects a Colonial Mindset
The promises billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos make for colonisation are similar in ambition to those of four centuries ago.
Jeff Bezos’s Vanity Space Flight Was a Uniquely American Disgrace
Only in a country whose ruling class has grown deeply deluded could a space joy ride like Jeff Bezos’s be seen as cause for public celebration rather than the …
The Billionaire Space Race Is the Ultimate Symbol of Capitalist Decadence
Extreme wealth in the capitalist age is by definition engaged in a constant and desperate scramble for new sources of ethical legitimacy
Big Tech Is Killing Movies
Amazon’s buyout of MGM is the latest example of the culture industry’s transformation into a Big Tech monopoly. Artists, workers, and the film-watching public suffer the consequences.
Are Billionaires Really That Great?
Billionaires unethically extract money, don't pay their taxes and wield too much political power. Should we be glorifying them?
Is Wokeness the New ‘Opium of the People’?
The true irony is how big companies, corporate news outlets and social media algorithms have been exacerbating and exploiting woke outrage to generate clicks and profits.
Revenge Porn is Sexual Violence, Not Millennial Negligence
Recently, intimate photos of the US representative Katie Hill were leaked to the media and published – without her consent.