What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat

by brown-saiyan

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  1. February_29th_2012 on

    Btw this is written by Noah Hawley, the creator of the Fargo show, Legion, Alien Earth, etc.

    Also

    >The lead singer of an alt-country band didn’t run the world, nor did a noted author who would later be accused of impropriety. 

    That’s Neil Gaiman right?

  2. YodaForceGhost on

    TLDR: Everything is free to them and they don’t give a shit about regular people

  3. Select-Appearance707 on

    During the weekend, Noah’s wife broke her wrist after slipping on wet grass, while Noah and his children contracted Hand, Foot and Mouth disease.

    >*How was your Campfire?* Bezos asked me an hour later, and because I am an honest person, and because I have been a host myself, I decided he would want to know that there had been a problem, but that his team had reacted quickly and been extremely helpful. To be clear, I was in no way blaming him, nor was I shaking down the richest man on Earth. Instead, I was simply offering Bezos, also a husband and father, a brief human connection.

    >But when I told him what had happened, Bezos looked horrified. He did not say “I’m so sorry.” He did not say “Do you need anything?” Instead, he made a face, and in an instant, an aide came and whisked him away. When presented with the opportunity for empathy, even performative empathy, he chose escape.

    What a tool.

  4. Real-Bluebird-1987 on

    At worst, they are given a tax or fine to pay, which for us would be inaccessible but for them, its chump change.

  5. LA_Muckraker on

    *Billionaire Wilderness* by Justin Farrell should be mandatory reading.

    Warning: it will **enrage** you.

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