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Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, has indeed been involved in an extraordinary journey from building Amazon to venturing into space travel with his company Blue Origin. In this video, we'll discuss the story of Jeff Bezos and his extraordinary story of how he founded Amazon and helped to launch the space race.
From Earth to The Stars: Jeff Bezos Extraordinary Amazon to Space Travel Story
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Jeff Bezos’s Homes: Inside His More Than $500 Million Property Portfolio | Architectural Digest
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Kindle's 15-year anniversary is a reminder simplicity is king | CNN Business
Kindle’s 15-year anniversary is a reminder simplicity is king | CNN Business
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Len Edgerly, a 72-year-old podcaster from Cambridge, Massachusetts, has spent the last 14 and a half years talking about his favorite tech product of all time: the Kindle.
Edgerly, who records a weekly podcast called “The Kindle Chronicles,” has spoken to authors, readers, publishing industry experts and Amazon executives — even founder Jeff Bezos, twice — about his…
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Should Billionaires Exist?
Do billionaires have a right to exist?
America has driven more than 650 species to extinction. And it should do the same to billionaires.
Why? Because there are only five ways to become one, and they’re all bad for free-market capitalism:
1. Exploit a Monopoly.
Jamie Dimon is worth $2 billion today… but not because he succeeded in the “free market.” In 2008, the government bailed out his bank JPMorgan and other giant Wall Street banks, keeping them off the endangered species list.
This government “insurance policy” scored these struggling Mom-and-Pop megabanks an estimated $34 billion a year.
But doesn’t entrepreneur Jeff Bezos deserve his billions for building Amazon?
No, because he also built a monopoly that’s been charged by the federal government and 17 states for inflating prices, overcharging sellers, and stifling competition like a predator in the wild.
With better anti-monopoly enforcement, Bezos would be worth closer to his fair-market value.
2. Exploit Inside Information
Steven A. Cohen, worth roughly $20 billion headed a hedge fund charged by the Justice Department with insider trading “on a scale without known precedent.” Another innovator!
Taming insider trading would level the investing field between the C Suite and Main Street.
3. Buy Off Politicians
That’s a great way to become a billionaire! The Koch family and Koch Industries saved roughly $1 billion a year from the Trump tax cut they and allies spent $20 million lobbying for. What a return on investment!
If we had tougher lobbying laws, political corruption would go extinct.
4. Defraud Investors
Adam Neumann conned investors out of hundreds of millions for WeWork, an office-sharing startup. WeWork didn’t make a nickel of profit, but Neumann still funded his extravagant lifestyle, including a $60 million private jet. Not exactly “sharing.”
Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of fraud for her blood-testing company, Theranos. So was Sam Bankman-Fried of crypto-exchange FTX. Remember a supposed billionaire named Donald Trump? He was also found to have committed fraud.
Presumably, if we had tougher anti-fraud laws, more would be caught and there’d be fewer billionaires to preserve.
5. Get Money From Rich Relatives
About 60 percent of all wealth in America today is inherited.
That’s because loopholes in U.S. tax law —lobbied for by the wealthy — allow rich families to avoid taxes on assets they inherit. And the estate tax has been so defanged that fewer than 0.2 percent of estates have paid it in recent years.
Tax reform would disrupt the circle of life for the rich, stopping them from automatically becoming billionaires at their birth, or someone else’s death.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not arguing against big rewards for entrepreneurs and inventors. But do today’s entrepreneurs really need billions of dollars? Couldn’t they survive on a measly hundred million?
Because they’re now using those billions to erode American institutions. They spent fortunes bringing Supreme Court justices with them into the wild.They treated news organizations and social media platforms like prey, and they turned their relationships with politicians into patronage troughs.
This has created an America where fewer than ever can become millionaires (or even thousandaires) through hard work and actual innovation.
If capitalism were working properly, billionaires would have gone the way of the dodo.
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'The world's richest are plundering the planet': Billionaires' huge carbon footprints prompt call for action
Oxfam has called for action over billionaires "plundering the planet" and placing the world "in grave danger" from climate change with their enormous carbon footprints.
Jamie Livingstone, the head of the charity's arm in Scotland, said the emissions from a single billionaire space flight would exceed the lifetime emissions of someone in the poorest billion people on earth.
A new study for Oxfam, based on research by the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), found that by the end of this decade the carbon footprints of the richest 1% of people on earth are set to be 30 times greater than what is compatible with keeping global warming below 1.5C.
The report's authors have now called for governments to bring in measures to "constrain luxury carbon consumption like mega yachts, private jets and space travel".
The report has been released after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos made a short trip into space and Sir Richard Branson journeyed to the edge of space in his Virgin Galactic rocket plane, while Elon Musk's private spaceflight company SpaceX is developing a vehicle to take humans to Mars.
But scientists have said that to achieve the goal agreed at the 2015 Paris climate summit, every person on earth would need to limit their CO2 emissions to just 2.3 tonnes by 2030 - roughly half the average carbon footprint today.
According to the new research, the richest 1% of people - smaller than the population of Germany - are expected to account for 16% of total emissions by 2030.
This is an increase from 13% in 1990 and 15% in 2015.
However, the total emissions produced by the richest 10% could be sufficient on their own to exceed the aligned level for 1.5 degrees in 2030, regardless of what the other 90% of the world's population do.
Mr Livingstone said: "The luxury lifestyles and continued plundering of the planet by the world's richest people are placing us all in ever graver peril.
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Someone I follow in lifestyle/ig showed some pics of the “this is about humanity” charity event. So actor Henry Winkler’s daughter is one of the cofounders and its an organization that raises awareness of vulnerable communities separated and reunited on both sides of the border. On the group’s ig account, Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, was being honoured at the event. Eva Longoria introduced her for her award. Kim K and Kris are friends of Bezos and Sanchez. Doria was shown in a set of pics on the charity’s ig stories, she ended up being one of the guests invited by one of the charity’s mid tier sponsors, the president of the hispanic lawyers association of la (Gina Zapanta). It looked like Doria was grouped with Gina Zapanta and her friends that were small scale ig influencers. So basically Doria got her pics taken with the Kardashians and probably left- just there for the appearance and thats it. Didn’t see her mingling in the background in any of the pics i saw. On lawyer Gina’s ig they all minus Doria went to in-n-out burger afterwards. This makes it feel more desperate than I thought :)
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Zodiac Signs Most Likely to Get RICH and FAMOUS
Yeah, we all want to be those. Rich and famous sounds like THE lifestyle to have. Unfortunately, that too is reserved to some Zodiac signs that fit the bill perfectly.
That’s not to mean that you can’t get rich and famous if you’re not on this list, you could always be the next Silicon Valley millionaire.
Only you’ve got more circumstantial chances if you do find yourself on this list. Due to their motivations, overall stubbornness and ambition or overall lack of empathy to the workers they’re exploiting, these are the four Zodiac signs that are most likely to become millionaires. By any means necessary.
#1. Taurus
No surprise here. While Taurus is known to be the sleepyhead, stubborn, hungry little hippo, Tauruses comprise a lot of the world’s richest persons. That’s because you need money to be able to nap a lot and eat a lot, which means they are more incentivized than the rest of us to build an empire.
Taurus is ruled by Venus, which is not only the planet of love, but also the planet of luxury, enjoying life, expensive things, and overall money. This means that a Taurus is born with a love for the boujee, and a bigger chance than anyone to actually get that bag, no matter what.
And it’s not just their innate luck, either. Apart from being couch potato hedonists, Taureans are actually quite hard-working, well organized and very ambitious.
That luxe lifestyle has to be supported by something, so that’s when their ambition kicks into high gear and has them working hard (and resting hard). In this aspect, you could consider a Taurus a more chilled out Capricorn.
#2. Aquarius
Well, this might surprise some people. You would not want to believe that humanitarian Aquarius cares so much about material gains. They’d much rather collect dead animal bones in the forest and do crazy eyeliner looks on themselves.
But their out-of-this-world (as they call it) personalities do really well in the workforce. That’s cause they are not focused on the end goal of making money, but rather having fun and helping society.
And you can’t actually help humanity if you’re dirt poor, so sacrifices must be made. Being such oddballs, fame can come quite easily for an Aquarius. Not only are they interesting, but their innate ability to just turn off their emotions and convey whatever they want is quite useful for the public eye. And for being serial killers, but that’s not what we’re talking about today.
They are also the most likely to get into witchcraft, so that can certainly be a massive advantage over other, more practical signs. If spiritual entities older than the Earth itself now want for crazy Aquarius Tina to be a wildly successful movie star, who are we to say no?
#3. Capricon
A Cap might not get famous for their wild bangers music album, but they will certainly climb on top of the corporate ladder during their lives. Have you seen their work ethic? Have you experienced a Capricon in a group project?
Not only are they used to carrying dead weight (looking at you, Cancer), but they will actually go above and beyond to ensure that what they’re delivering is the best. No exceptions.
A Capricorn will race anyone to the top and if by any chance, at one point they will lose the lead, they will bite ankles to return to the podium.
There’s no exception. A Capricon will sell their soul to get to the top then use their money and overall persuasion tactics to buy it right back from the devil.
Do not mess with these guys. Even if they’re the nerds now, they will probably be the ones you will work for in the future. You, your parents, friends, pizza delivery guy, mechanic, boyfriend, dog and your favourite celebrities. Your fairy godmother. Jeff Bezos is a Capricon.
#4. Virgo
Finishing up with the nerds of the Zodiac, of course, Virgos have massive chances of being rich. Famous? Who knows? I bet they don’t actually care, anyway. They just want that cold, hard cash, for their cold, hard hearts.
Whether this means working their friends for all they got or working themselves into an early grave, a Virgo won’t be satisfied until they run multiple businesses, invest everything they’ve got into crypto and the stock market, then steal candy from babies to top off their fortunes.
Their stellar organizational skills and their sheer determination to prove, once and for all, that they are the best at all they do will translate into a pretty sizeable fortune. To this, you would probably want to say: “hey Virgo, can you just stop and smell the flowers for a second?”
The reply to that will invariably be Virgo buying a ticket to a botanical garden, taking the most advantageous route through it that allows them to smell all the flowers in the shortest amount of time, then ordering a Flower Smelling Champion trophy for their office.
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Y'all remember that unhoused guy in Korra? The one who was always really chipper? And then when Amon occupied Republic City he smuggled Team Avatar underground with disguises and shelter and food and sent telegrams for them at great personal risk? Whatever happened to that guy? I'm pretty sure he just kept being impoverished and hassled by the police and acting like this was a fun, carefree lifestyle that he chose and enjoyed.
That'd be like if you personally saved the lives of the Pope, both Peyton and Eli Manning, Jeff Bezos, and a four star general at the same time, and then they were like "Alright fam, good luck with your debt, hope you find somewhere to sleep tonight, don't get arrested."
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I posted this to the alternate history subreddit and got zero responses, maybe Tumblr is more interested in discussing this idea?
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You ever create an alternate timeline just to indulge in your own nostalgia?
...just me? Okay...
Anyway, for a while now, I've been thinking about an alternate present where present-day sensibilities and everyday life are closer to what they were like pre-2010. Since the biggest influence on modern day life during that time arguably came from the rise of the Internet, social media, and related things, pretty much all of my thoughts center around that.
The point of divergence here is that the Millennium Bug (aka "Y2K") was just as devastating as people feared it would be. Databanks were wiped, machinery failed, there was loads of general unrest as people were falsely classified as deceased, didn't get their paychecks, and other major and minor consequences of their data being either wrong, or gone completely. In some cases, it took years to clean up the mess completely.
This, coupled with the bursting of the dotcom bubble not much later, led to a general wariness and distrust towards anything having to do with the Internet. Businesses might have still been okay with using their homepage as interactive billboards, but it turned out to be almost impossible to find investors or loans if your business directly relied on the Internet. And even those who did get their idea off the ground, failed to find a large enough audience. As such, social media like Facebook and Twitter are barely, if at all, a thing in this world. This is also partly due to smartphones, and therefore smartphone apps, never breaking into the mainstream. Apple could not establish its new iPhone as the lifestyle gimmick of choice, instead going all-in on their iPods, music players that you insert USB drives, and, in modern variants, SD cards into to listen to your favorite tunes. The newest model has three card slots, letting you choose between three different albums on the go!
Streaming, of course, also isn't a thing. No Netflix or iTunes to inspire copycats. Blockbuster partners with Microsoft for their new HD-DVD technology, establishing it as the primary medium to watch videos at home. Sony, meanwhile, focuses its efforts into combining a handheld gaming console and a portable video player. The PSP becomes a huge hit.
But, speaking of video games, online games are an almost negligible market. There's less of a focus on high-end Internet speeds, so playing with friends is an activity mostly relegated to your own home. Microtransactions and subscription services are not a thing.
Some popular websites do establish themselves, but they're far from being as influential and popular as in our world. Youtube stays afloat, but is mostly seen as a place to find new creators, and then follow them onto their own web presence. Very few people manage to make a living off of it, and corporations, TV stations, etc won't be found dead making their own YouTube channels.
Without social media, interactions online are still relegated to message boards and chat rooms, with the accompanying implicit netiquette. Which of course means, everything's still pretty anonymous. Without Facebook introducing the idea of using your real name and photo as part of your online presence (nobody joins a Pokémon fan forum expecting their old classmates to find them there, after all), pseudonyms and avatars rule the day. This, of course, makes it almost impossible for artists to really find an audience, much less make a living off their art. Even if they did find lots of people who enjoy their work, the lack of services like PayPal, Patreon, or Kickstarter, makes it nigh impossible to actually make a profit as an independent online artist. Some find a way, but the concepts of "influencers" and "content creators" never develop.
Amazon fails to establish itself as a major online marketplace. It makes enough for Jeff Bezos to start a chain of brick and mortar bookstores, with the online storefront being more of an afterthought. Most, if not all online shopping is really just individuals selling their old stuff, usually locally.
That's all I really have so far. I'd love to hear some more ideas, maybe things that aren't as tech-centric? Anyway, I hope you enjoy.
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ASMR Jeff Bezos is your dad who doesn't understand your new emo lifestyle and also Light Deathnote is there.
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