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diff --git a/content-org/blog.org b/content-org/blog.org index 9bbd31e..5ca7201 100644 --- a/content-org/blog.org +++ b/content-org/blog.org @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ #+HUGO_SECTION: blog -* 2024 [86/88] :@blog: +* 2024 [87/89] :@blog: :PROPERTIES: :EXPORT_HUGO_SECTION: blog/2024 :EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :image_dir "blog/images" :image_max_width 600 @@ -122,6 +122,64 @@ It's small annoyance, but it shows the general direction. Microsoft GitHub is still not near the biggest sin an Open Source can commit when it comes to cooperation (that crown still goes to using Discord), but it's far from being "Open". +** DONE Bezos's fortune is too big to care about you +CLOSED: [2024-10-26 Sat 21:17] +:PROPERTIES: +:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: bezos-washington-post +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :Abstract Washington Post was a small purchase +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :Listening Moonspell - Irreligious +:END: + +Tech billionaire is being evil again. +This time [[https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/25/24279602/jeff-bezos-washington-post-kamala-harris-endorsement][Jeff Bezos kills Washington Post's endorsement for one of the US presidential candidates.]] +It doesn't matter which one, but people are canceling their subscriptions. +But, let's face it. +He is too rich to care. + +Bezoss bought Washington Post [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/washington-post-to-be-sold-to-jeff-bezos/2013/08/05/ca537c9e-fe0c-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html][a decade ago]] for 250000000 USD (25 million). +This seems a lot but almost the entire human race, but not for him. + +At the moment of buying the gazette, his net worth was 25000000 (25,2 billion). +It was less than 1% of his net worth. + +If you bought the entire Austen Powers collection on Amazon, it would cost you 13,7USD (I lie here, as this is today price). +For you to care as much as Bezos about buying Washington Post, you would need to have just shy of 1370USD. +In 2013. + +But in 2024, his net worth grew to 211000000000 (211 billion). +Are you 10x richer than 10 years ago? +But then, if you bought that BluRay 10 years ago for that 13,7USD, you would now 13700SD. +Would you even care about that BluRay? +I'm guessing you have already given it /for free/ to someone. + +So, he would not notice if Washington Post died today, he would not notice. +But what are some other things he owns some stake in, that you can stop using? +#+attr_shortcode: :file dr-evil.jpg +#+attr_shortcode: :alt Headshot of a bold, white man with a scar. This is a character Dr Evil from Austen Powers series of movies +#+attr_shortcode: :class pull-right +#+attr_shortcode: :forced_width 250 +#+begin_image +Jeff Bezos, circa 2025 +#+end_image + +- Amazon +- Whole Foods +- Zappos +- Twitch +- MGM +- Audible +- IMDB +- Ring +- Eero +- Goodreads +- ComiXology +- Cloud9 IDE +- Antropic +- Blue Origin +- Book Depisitory +- Airbnb +- Workday + ** DONE Moving pages in Hugo CLOSED: [2024-10-26 Sat 00:29] :PROPERTIES: |