{"id":316135,"date":"2017-07-06T20:19:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T19:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-destructive-power-trips-of-amazons-boss\/"},"modified":"2017-07-06T20:19:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T19:19:44","slug":"the-destructive-power-trips-of-amazons-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-destructive-power-trips-of-amazons-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"The Destructive Power Trips of Amazon\u2019s Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>For his smallish stature, Amazon Boss Jeff Bezos has a booming, uproarious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lZ_DyimkS54\">laugh<\/a>. Unleashed during workdays, its sonic burst startles people, given it comes from as harsh and driven a taskmaster as exists on the stage of corporate giantism.<\/p>\n<p>Is Bezos\u2019s outward giddiness a worrisome reflection of what Bezos is feeling on the inside? Is he laughing at all of us?<\/p>\n<p>Is Bezos laughing at the tax collectors, having avoided paying \u00a0most states\u2019 sales taxes for years on all the billions of books he sold online, thereby giving him an immediate 6 to 9 percent price advantage over brick-and-mortar bookstores, that also paid property taxes to support local schools and public facilities? That, and being an early online bookseller, gave Bezos his crucial foothold, along with other forms of tax avoidance that big companies utilize.<\/p>\n<p>Is Bezos laughing at the bureaucratic labor unions, that somehow can\u2019t get a new handle on organizing the tens of thousands of exploited blue collar workers crying for help in Amazon warehouses and other stress-driven installations? With a net-worth over $80 billion, why should he worry?<\/p>\n<p>Is Bezos laughing at the giant retailers, who are closing hundreds of stores because their thin margins cannot withstand Amazon\u2019s predatory pricing?<\/p>\n<p>Is Bezos laughing at the Justice Department\u2019s Antitrust Division which, before Trump, was studying how old antitrust laws could be used to challenge monopolizing Molochs such as Amazon in the 21st century? It is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/07\/the-destructive-power-trips-of-amazons-boss\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For his smallish stature, Amazon Boss Jeff Bezos has a booming, uproarious laugh. Unleashed during workdays, its sonic burst startles people, given it comes from as harsh and driven a taskmaster as exists on the stage of corporate giantism. Is Bezos\u2019s outward giddiness a worrisome reflection of what Bezos is feeling on the inside? Is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-316135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}