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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Robert Caro disagrees. Power does not corrupt, it reveals. If you somehow became a billionaire, you’d be able to do whatever you wanted, which means we’d be able to see what you wanted to do. If you start acting evil once you get money, it means you were evil but unable to act on it until you had money.

    Specifically about Amazon, Bezos made it because he wanted to cash in on the early internet with his own startup, leaving a Wall Street firm to do so. And, yes, we was a dick to his only employee, which is why the man quit after only 5 years.






  • In apartment terms:

    The 196 landlords wanted to move to another city because they didn’t like this city’s mayor’s authority. The 196 tenants like the city, because it’s inclusive and the mayor is a pretty cool gal, and saw the landlords’ city of choice as significantly worse for a LOT of reasons. Regardless, the landlords locked the building and expected all the tenants to move with them at a moment’s notice.

    So some cool people found a different building in the original city and used that, all while telling the original landlords how dumb and bad they were for their little stunt. The original landlords eventually relented and opened the old building, but the new building remained with different landlords.